Anecdote to back this up, we have annual round of employee directed projects where people propose something they will do that no one asked for in hopes that they do something unexpected that's worthwhile. Generally it's a waste of time business wise, but at least people get to work on something they actually believe in.

Anyway, usually they at least usually manage to create a somewhat working demo of their concept, but this year most of them failed to do so, because most of the pitches were people that didn't know how to do the work, but GenAI was able to generate pitch material that convinced executives to approve them and largely drowned out the people with actionable proposals. So most of the final presentations were people just repeating their pitch and hoping people didn't notice they had no new material since their pitch a few months back.

You are right, I didn't know or didn't remember those.

Quite frankly a huge amount of skepticism is absolutely warranted. The AI tech companies are broadly worrisome, but Palantir takes the cake for outright villainous efforts.

To the extent they have shown ambition for a future, they haven't shown they have a whiff of folk's best interests at heart.

Nope...

Note the intent to "retrain" labor.

The AI dividend in their scenarios wawould be a trivial gimmick. They still want the labor force toiling, but a dividend to mollify concerns about AI displacement.

If this happened, I would bet maybe 100 or 200 dollars a month of "dividend". You'd still be expect to toil away under the capitalist rules to actually have a credible living.

In terms of what to change to doing, some of these folks already said that people need to return to manual labor. They really hope AI will work as a strategy to make educational an impractical choice and people just kind of stay uneducated and desperate to provide manual labor for sustenance.

This is a path for them to patch what they see as a problem in capitalism: some modicum of class mobility. Other than that possibility, capitalism works great for them. For communism as a core principle, then they need to go full authoritarian, and the power struggle among them to get there is a more dangerous one than a modified capitalism.

Ok, but how does it work in the scenario where it pushed another package into the street and then the package gets hit by a car? A package that may have nothing to do with Amazon aside from it being pushed into the street.

Also, from my experience with this, it's true that 90% of the time they are pretty agreeable, but coincidentally the 10% of the time where they are skeptical just happens to be the more expensive stuff.

I just don't order expensive stuff from amazon. Actually, Amazon is only if I can't get it anywhere else reasonable nowadays.

Right. You are applying legalese word precision assumptions to throwaway online comments. I don't think that's going to work well.

Of course, problem is the lack of availability of similar data for successful companies.

To the extent it *might* work, that's all the stronger case to keep your successful company's information confidential, to avoid helping future competition be a broadly more capable company.

So we are still stuck at training your model to be a crappy business.

Train models mostly on the communications of failed businesses... What could go wrong?

No, the one that answered:

"You know what he means, ahole. If this were truly a problem the jet fuel would be rationed and private aircraft would be at the bottom of the priority list"

The entire point of rationing would be to REMOVE the pure market forces that would deal out the limited commodity to those with the largest wallets and replace it with a scheme that benefits the most people, instead of the most money.

If you actually knew better, you'd have posted it, not just made a vague assertion.

Yes, and the only ships running on nuclear reactors are military ships. As I said: No civilian use-case.

Think this was more about the business side than the execution side.

They can be just fine if Linux desktop is seen as 'acceptable' in the mass market. The operative word being 'seen', not if it should be acceptable, but if people believe it to be.

It's a tall order to shift the perception of the mass market.

If Microsoft screws over their users, and now 'just enough laptop' can be bought from Apple within a price range long deemed 'adequate', then AMD/Intel essentially *need* people to decide they *love* linux desktops, and broadly speaking at this point the mass market is "a device that runs a browser and who cares about OS as long as it's not actively pissing me off".

It actually might go badly for Linux desktops if Windows screws up their market share too badly. Apple does not give a shit about Linux support and so Linux desktop largely lives on the standardized ecosystem in x86 side in part thanks to the separation of concerns between the hardware vendors and Microsoft. If Microsoft managed to kill the Windows desktop hypothetically, might be hard pressed to have any hardware for Linux desktops to run on anymore...

This is one AC that deserves to be modded up. I already commented, so I can't.

You are aware of what happened Oct 7, 2023, right?

Actually, islamic fundamentalists qualify for that statement in absolutely every way. So at the absolute minimum you'll have to concede that there are two fascist sides.

For sufficiently gracious definitions of "working". Iran was quite busy building up conventional weapons including delivery systems that could be re-purposed for nukes as well as moving towards nuclear weapons. There is no civilian use for 60% enriched uranium. Moreover, the number "60%" is misleading. The work to enrich isn't linear. When you have 60%, you're not 60% of the way from raw to weapons-grade, you're 95% of the way.

To put into context just how insane any claim that they had 60% for any peaceful purposes is: Most nuclear reactors use uranium enriched to 3% to 5%. 60% isn't "a bit more than usual". It's a fuckton more than any non-weapons use can reasonably explain.

Iran didn't need a reason. We all know the reason they already had: Wiping out Israel.