No need for the disclaimer. I know this is fake because Scroogle would never do anything as personal as a 1:1 when laying people off.
Oh, no, the company that runs from human support since inception has an inhumane approach to handling people?!?
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#43About a decade ago I was doing a lot of travel for work - 140 plus flights a year over 6 continents level. I remember watching a film, “Up in the Air”, about a guy who was contest flying from airport to airport to lay people off because the boss was too much of a wimp to do it himself. I guess even his job isn’t safe from AI. Sure some will manage to hack with prompt injection attacks, and potentially get compensatio…
That George Clooney’s traveling show was going to be replaced by Anna Kendrick’s Zoom-before-Zoom technology solution is a major part of the plot.
It’s a fantastic film, albeit in a bit of an obscure niche if you haven’t dipped your toe in the points/status game.
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#44Plot twist : this story was written by AI.
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#46Super biased, strongly held first impression: drop the disclaimer, or move it to the side. I'm just an attention-deprived zoomer, but for me a big preface is not a good way to keep my interested. If I'm gonna be sucked into a whole thing , it's usually because I didn't realize it was a whole thing. Plus 'A dull thud hit James' wrist.' pretty immediately puts this in the realm of fiction imo! After reading the whole t…
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
A choice of two dystopia - one where your brain is controlled by a computer, the other where you are locked in a room.
That is like traditions chicken farming vs free range chicken farming. Keep in mind while free range chicken farming is better to market, it is also more messy. https://thehensloft.com/free-range-chicken-pros-cons/
Have you ever been inside of an industrial chicken house? Its absolutely, without a doubt, the most disgusting and depressing place I've ever personally seen. Even worse if you're unlucky enough to be there after a single case of avian flu is found anywhere in the area.
Chickens can be messy, but that's only an issue with free ranged birds if you don't have enough space for them. Most chickens won't venture too dar from their coop, usually on the order of a couple hundred feet. If you don't want chickens pooping all over your lawn and barn, just put their coop further out in the field (preferably near some trees for cover).
Rotational grazing is also really effective with chickens. Its more work, but you keep the birds where you want them and end up fertilizing your fields as you move them around.
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#48That was interesting. I'm reminded of the sci-fi story called "Manna" that I read a while ago, which explored a bit of a dystopian future, where advancements in technology eventually made a lot of people unemployed: https://marshallbrain.com/manna Actually, the Wiki page has more info on it, for those that don't have the time to read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel) The story is from 2003, but hearing…
SO where is the near-real-time country-wide system that ratchets down the standard (statutory) work week in sync with the overall decline in aggregate work ?
Governments need us busy and distracted, they'll never willingly give us free time like that.
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#49That was interesting. I'm reminded of the sci-fi story called "Manna" that I read a while ago, which explored a bit of a dystopian future, where advancements in technology eventually made a lot of people unemployed: https://marshallbrain.com/manna Actually, the Wiki page has more info on it, for those that don't have the time to read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel) The story is from 2003, but hearing…
Manna(one of my favorite writings on AI),
is incredibly optimistic and sugar-coated.
All the "basic income" parts and Australia
would have to be realistically fought tooth-and-nail
with people viewing welfare recipients as "lazy" and "entitled"..
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#50"We won't share a list of the affected employees because some of them might not want the information to be public" was the biggest bullshit I've heard recently - no fiction needed. Discovering that people you worked with for years have been laid off only because you randomly notice their slack is deactivated has to be one of 2024s gifts to humanity.
We're people really told before, or did everyone simply find out because they were all in the office together?
I know when I worked in a big company 20 years ago I would have no idea who was let go in another office.