American issue is that they package many independent opinions into just 2 political “labels”. And then you get seemingly schizophrenic results like this.

Not just an American issue though, it’s happening elsewhere too, but maybe less extreme.

I guess when buying 11000 rats you are somewhat constrained in your choice of color. It’s not like you can order them made in a custom color.

A couple of years old, but in the early days they didn’t care about sanitizing non-English content. Leading to pearls like this:

I feel like a Cassandra since I was warning about this for years now.

The gender equality narrative got too focused on excluding men specifically, instead of including the less represented gender in each profession. Somehow the idea was that men are privileged in the system and women oppressed, while the truth is that both men and women are oppressed.

Divide and conquer was a small step away from that point.

Their shopping experience is so much worse than only 3 years ago. Whatever they are doing, they are doing it wrong.

Yes, but it’s also the most logical place. What other activity do you dedicate so much time to? Maybe sleeping but it’s hard to build a community around that.

I’m starting to understand that many people never felt the sense of community, in the workplace or otherwise. Yes it’s possible.

The trick is that it doesn’t depend on the company, it depends on the people. Last time it happened to me, we pretty much all quit together because we were frustrated at the company but kept being friends afterwards.

He also didn’t invent a programming language.
For a file system you only get one murder.

A chess-specific algorithm beat a language model at chess. Shocking!

Try training a chess model. Actually I think it’s already been done, machines have been consistently better at chess than humans for a while now.

Musk is a narcissist who got very lucky in life. But still he is a human, bad human but relatable in the sense you understand his flaws.

Thiel is something else. Sociopath I guess. Dude is not human and doesn’t function according to any understandable human psychology

Looking up how to do something, as an improved stackoverflow. Especially if it provides sources in the answer.

Boilerplate unit tests. Yes, yes, I know - use parametrized test, but it’s often not practical.

Mass refactoring. This is tricky because you need to thoroughly review it, but it saves you annoying typing.

I’m sure there’s more, it’s far from useless. But you need to know what you want it to do and how to check if done correctly.

Both really. The thought of strange unknown people is scary until you get to know them. But also people going through immense suffering and trauma, fighting for bare survival, can be dangerous and unpredictable.

It doesn’t help that immigrants are scary. Instead of addressing it on the emotional level and calming down the fears, politicians choose to gaslight those who are afraid (rationally or not).

Finally, a good use case for AI

They usually have to do many takes of one scene.
While I don’t doubt that the real stuff is easier to find on the set than the fake, it’s just not practical.

I’m always surprised how many employees these companies have. 18.400?

Working in a large software company myself I shouldn’t be surprised, the level of inefficiency is amazing. I’ve seen less inertia in government agencies. Dilbert comics were supposed to be an exaggeration, they’re not.

Packaged products ready to use? No.
Libraries which I use in my own projects? I at least have a quick look at the implementation, often a more detailed analysis if issues pop up.

I’m not sure there will be a difference either way. Customer service jobs spent decades trying to train humans to act as much as robots as possible. Of course replacing them with a shitty bot seemed to make sense, they were already pretending to be shitty bots.
Any “quality” in customer support comes from individuals circumventing company rules to provide actual support to the customer. AI can’t do that.

Giving birth to yourself - the ultimate self hosting

So it’s really good at the thing LLMs are good at. Don’t judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree etc…