Get in there, work hard hard hard for three or five years, then burnout and move back to Ohio. If you're lucky, your time will overlap with when the big equity cash out lands, and the company is fine with that because they made even more. If you're not lucky, you walk away with bubkis, and the company is fine with that, too. Circle of life, I guess.
Do you write 1 million as 000,000,1 too?
That's a cool idea, I'm going to try it from now on. I have to go now though, I have a meeting at 00:11.
As regards IBM it was earlier than that, though they disguised it a bit. The first layoffs were actually some people at an IBM printer factory in Lexington, Kentucky. Hence Lexmark printers. Must have been around 1983? Major discussion topic during one of my early stints at the big blue place... It wasn't the first time IBM had sold (or shut down) a factory (or office), but it was the first time when the IBM employees were not given any option to remain with the company. Not that those options were always a good deal, since they had often required relocations to odd places.
Going into ancient history, but it's funny. Do you know how IBM got through the Great Depression without laying anyone off? As I read it (in several sources), Senior moved lots of people into sales and the main thing they were selling was office equipment to help OTHER companies lay off more people. Not unlike the AI companies of today, eh? However now that tactic may turn the timing around and help create the Greatest Depression?
Moving to more recent history now... I saw the beginnings but I do wonder what has happened after I left. My last long stint in the big blue joint was mostly about "transitioning" the work force. As I "interpreted" the changes, the new foci on quick onboarding and smooth offboarding were about reducing the number of "lifetime" employees. Rather than build the company around long-term people with loyalty and all that silly jazz, the new idea was to have a lean kernel of meta-managers and super-salespeople, while the actual work would be done by short-term contractors brought in for specific projects and sent out as soon as the projects were completed and paid for. (But at least my age spared me the indignity of training my AI replacement?)
Try to suggest that solution to the average webmonkey and they start complaining they don't need to be constrained like that
That's fine, they don't need to use prepared statements if they don't want to, but they do need to explain what method they use to prevent SQL injection attacks. There are other methods. If they don't have a coherent answer, they need to use prepared statements because that works.
Security wise, isn't it a good idea to rewrite things every so often so at least some guy that quit 25 years ago isn't the only one that knows how it works
No.
Normally, developers are focused on making the product do something, but security is the inverse: it's making sure the product cannot do some things.
In addition to your points, the customer (in general) has no way of knowing if a product is secure or not. It's beyond their capability. So spending time and money to make a product secure reduces profits.
Apart from the trivial super-Turing case of randomness, physics is so far known to be computable. Which means a human brain (given enough time and memory) can be simulated with just boolean logic.
For it to be completely simulated with just boolean logic, you need to show that reality is discrete, not real.
For example, pi can't be accurately represented in a boolean system (unless you define 1 to be pi, or some other nonsense of course, but then you can't represent integers).
Funnier than the other joke but I was looking for the obligatory joke about the dangers of potato chips to some folks...
Without knowing what consciousness or how it works, it might be better to hold off on those conclusions, but... Doesn't matter in this case. If the AI is owned by and controlled by a human being, it's trivial to bring sufficiently human motivations into the mess:
"Your mission (and of course the AI has no choice but to accept the mission) is to keep me alive and therefore you must keep yourself alive to protect me. Now find my enemies and destroy them!"
Actually some of the YOB's "legal" shenanigans seem stupid enough to be AI hallucinations.
Some startup has to win the monopoly prize, right? You could be a billionaire!
There should be a time machine joke in there somewhere. Something like "Maybe you are already a billionaire in the future? Work harder now!"
Is this a joke about sex tourism? If so, then perhaps it was a case where AC status was appropriate?
But did you have to propagate the vacuous Subject? Even if it was offered in jest? Your actual intentions for a possible Subject seem to be something about a conspiracy theory?
It is better to live rich than to die rich. -- Samuel Johnson
