Ha! I enjoyed the 'autocoprophagia' neologism for describing current LLM trends

My kids love to read but the books are primarily either ebooks or from the library. The bookshelves are already full of hand-me-downs, although here and there I'll get them a nice set of LOTR or such. It is kind of like being surprised that folks don't mostly buy TV shows on disc by the season but instead view them via more ephemeral means: only a subset of produced content is worth revisiting enough to be worth owning.

Everybody seems to think we want to have virtual meetings with these things when half of the folks don't even bother putting an avatar photo into their Teams profile, let alone turn the camera on or desire better camera interfaces.

Just running the query is what takes the cycles

Yeah if that's how much energy it takes to brute force the output of an administrative assistant or technical writer than surely the latter are cheaper

Spoken like someone that's never used an autoclave. Anyhow, no one thinks climate change will cause human extinction but it'll continue to tip over countries here and there.

Yet including ranchers and farmers in a discussion about office perks is stretching the terminology to the point of contrarianism for its own sake. If the CEO had pointed out that his staff didn't require safety shoes, it'd be pointless to note that many jobs still require safety shoes.

I'll agree with hybrid having benefits, the day I go into the office is the least productive day of the week by far, but good for maintaining personal connections.

Most of the occupations you listed don't work in an office, they work in a restaurant, laboratory, and other specialized facilities that are necessitated by the work performed there. What's becoming less necessary with WFH is the general purpose administrative office for paperwork and keyboardwork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I'm yet puzzled by these sorts of commentaries about jobs WFH can't apply to. Won't anyone think of the farmhands or ditch diggers who don't get to work with a roof over their head?

They get their money for golfing with the board of directors

Even a complicated tax code would be fine if the government made the software/spreadsheet and was responsible for errors it made. You don't need to have a flat tax to make it easy on the taxpayer, its made a pain for them on purpose to make them resent paying them at all. You don't have to calculate variable sales tax yourself at the point of sale, the computer in the cash register takes care of it.

The odds of it hitting land at all, let alone anywhere populated, have to be fairly small. Perhaps even... astronomical

I don't disagree, the same time we wound those down we made it easier to have staff do web order punchouts for stuff the admins used to order, and there's no way that having each staff member order a pack of pens and paper is cheaper than ordering a case of each but so it goes

Yeah kinda, but I don't think that makes the plumbers or electricians more safe when all the laid off software engineers can't afford to hire their work out and have to buy the LEGO fittings for each at the hardware store. (Sure they cost more per fitting but it's faster and easier than sweating pipe like an old school plumber, and far cheaper than hiring it out)