It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

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quick someone tell the commercial real estate goons what will happen when everyone is replaced w AI
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The "water-cooler" is important until an exec sees a slightly smaller super yacht in their future looking at a spreadsheet with PTO time they have to pay pesky humans with their human needs.
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Can't wait for the office building landlords to suddenly realize their buildings won't have full occupancy.
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It’s okay! They’re all buying data centers! [sarcasm]
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Just whether the tech lords or the landlords are talking
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The real work happens when two LLM's pass each other in the hallway and have a serendipitous conversation.
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It’s very clear when you look at the juxtaposition that the true motive is power over workers.

WFH gave workers more freedom and downtime by cutting out the commute.

“AI” promises to keep workers scrabbling for wages.
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Very true.
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And to automate surveillance of workers down to incredibly nitpicky detail.
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Excellent point
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I know right? they just follow whatever talking point trends. Like 10 years ago it was all about the open office space copying tech, then Zoom, hybrid, then in person working, now chatbots AI. They do 0 reflection on what actually works.
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When the people in charge care less about getting actual work done and more about who can make small talk by the water cooler, those who can use the most water with the fewest bathroom breaks win.
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That’s a person that is only interested in micromanaging and maximizing profit, they don’t care about people.

I love AI but I hate the chatbots when I need a real person to solve an actionable problem.
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You love ai? What? Why?
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You scooped me 😉

I have an essay in draft I’ve been sitting on for a few weeks on exactly this paradox.
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You don't need 300k engineers to make Amazon's website shittier! The primary value 90% of employees had at Big Tech was visible proof they were Researching the Next Big Thing. (Remote=not visible.) Now that they can pretend ChatGPT is doing that work they don't even need butts in the seats anymore.
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of course humans who can easily get sick absolutely have to "return to office" but AI which can't get sick can work from home
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…humans who need to be “monitored” to ensure they’re “productive”, versus AIs where no one seems to ever even question what “productive” even is.
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China is going to outcompete the west becuase their mandate is to satisfy jobs numbers not to satisfy money numbers

US inherited a war time economy since ww2 and never stopped. The war time economy valued lean human engagement for expanded weapons productions.
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We are entering an era where human input is not completely necessary to be as competitive in the production front.

We need to tweak economics in a way that accurately reflect the future change in labor force and resource allocation.
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The point is, other people don't matter and I can do whatever I want no matter what they want
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100% there will be biweekly alternating columns on the subject "CEO of blah such and such signals..."
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