Time loop movies, like Groundhog Day, kind of have that emotional resonance of impotence.

Are we testing for being human or being neurotypical?

“You know what they meant.”

I always do, out of pique and correctness if nothing else.

And its competitor, Clawflare.

“Also, the chasing has to happen on my island.”

I feel like looking at work at merely profit maximization is missing a big part of the picture.

There’s a big part of it that’s social positioning within an organization. I’ve worked more than a few jobs that could have been part time or been eliminated entirely, thereby saving the company money, but there is social value of being a manager that employs +1 people, so those jobs stayed.

There is a massive amount of weirdness going on at companies that is entirely unrelated to the balance sheet and wouldn’t be out of a place in a Byzantine Court.

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Is there a dog park? Anywhere where people congregate? A place you could put up a flyer saying, “Dog Training” with your phone number? I feel like you’re finding ways to avoid that initial leap, finding things that have to happen before you do that.

The thing is, people aren’t going to come in every day to work for 2 hours. If you’re hiring someone, you get much better results hiring them for more hours. So now you have a guy come in to make dough and pay him another six hours to baby sit a machine that also costs as much as the worker? Partial automation doesn’t make any sense when it results in people standing around.

But what you’re talking about is real–machines do lower labor cost for pizza. Every pizza place has a giant mixer almost as tall as I am with a dough hook to make its dough in the morning.

I think the X-Men got this entirely right: some mix of co-option by the elite, registration, control, and maybe extermination.

The DOUGH IS ALREADY MADE AND ROLLED and the robot wants to say it made the pizza? Wth

Yeah, sure, it’s like saying, “I’ll walk the dog for you” and opening the door. That’s not the hard part!

Do you know the legend of stone soup?

A traveler goes to a village that has fallen on hard times. Nobody will give him food. He stops at a farmer’s house and says, “I have a magic stone. It will dissolve into a rich broth full of flavor and nutrients that will make enough delicious soup for the entire village.” So the news goes around town that there will be a soup feast, and everyone brings something to contribute: some vegetables, some meats, some spices, and they all enjoy a delicious soup, never realizing that the traveler had scooped a plain and simple stone out of the cauldron before the guests had arrived.

I feel like AI is kind of the traveller here and the 180,000 lines of shitty code is the stone, and all the work people are going to do in making that code performant are the real ingredients.

i bestow upon thee the gift of READING THE ARTICLE!!!

Aigh! I’ve been cursed!

Wow, I thought it would be a pretty dry article, but it turned into an anti-anti-AI rant.

I’m gonna make some popcorn. BRB.

Well, if you don’t know about the details, it’s because you’re not cool like me who totally does know about it but I want you to arrive at your own conclusions. /s

Aw, come on, don’t leave us guessing! There’s a controversy I don’t know about it! How am I supposed to establish my moral superiority?

I guess people don’t trust the company that coined “Embrace, Extend, Exterminate” to run an open source project? .NET is run by Microslop.

That’s very generous of you.

I think you are barking up the wrong tree.

For an unregulated profession, it’s just about your ability to network with the right people and/or market yourself. A credential is helpful because people are stupid, but any credential is as good as another–reading books and passing exams is no evidence of your ability to train animals.

I’d start calling around with dog trainers and see if they need help with training or have any suggestions. If there are any animal-related jobs you can take, at doggy day care, in a vet clinic, at a pet food store, dog grooming, get a job there and start networking.

I’m open to compromise. I’d say we’re both fools, though I am the bigger fool.

tl;dr: please explain how you chose your personal values without referencing your personal values in some way?