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OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by jdw64 »

mFixman wrote: post #22
jdw64 wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wish AI could do my economic activities for me. There's a conspiracy theory that says if you get vaccinated, your body gets taken over by a millionaire. I actually like that conspiracy theory. Sometimes I wish someone would control me. Having a self and consciousness is just too painful.

Lumon is currently hiring new candidates willing to undergo severance :-)

Seeing that the series aired on Apple TV+, it seems like Apple knows exactly what its employees are doing. Maybe they just turned what their employees want into a drama? hehe

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Post by beezlebroxxxxxx »

mikert89 wrote: post #16

Not a joke, living in NYC, I have met a ton of harvard/yale "CEOs". Read their profile, see them in an all hands meeting, they look incredible. Spend any lengthy unscripted time with them behind closed doors, they are absolutely clueless. The trick is true access to these people is so limited, and usually guarded. With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy

> With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy

No, you've identified the real issue: all the CEOs come from Harvard/Yale. There is a very large wealth class divide between the people who get these jobs almost exclusively due to "networking" (often failing upwards) and the increasingly rare people who actually work up to those roles. It's very much a club that uses every tool possible to maintain the opportunity hording, including AI.

This is largely because being an executive in 2026 has very, very, little to due with technical expertise. AI will just be another tool in their workshop for that.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by JohnHaugeland »

b112 wrote: post #24
ForHackernews wrote: post #5

This is a fun joke, but there's a real element of truth to it: A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI. In other fields, where automation or tooling has enabled technicians to do work that previously required expensive expertise, there's been a drive from management to replace those costly professionals. What's the parallel for executives? Is the CEO market ripe for disruption by…

In the 80s and early 90s, massive swaths of "middle management" were purged by Corporate America. Those managers have never returned. That's not CxO class of course, but these were 'executives'. Very well paid ones at the time, what might have been considered 'upper middle income'. Well-to-do. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZWKGZGN Human Resources: A Tor Original by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Author) An amusing take on it. Be…

in 1992 middle management was 9.2% of the workforce. in 2022 it was 13.1%

use data when you make claims

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by CuriouslyC »

shadowfiend wrote: post #20
dist-epoch wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Talk for yourself. > Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for "maximum control, zero rejection" https://fortune.com/2026/04/17/teen-boys-dating-ai-chatbot-g... > The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends. Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/schoolboys-a…

... Yeah, that's a replacement for your girlfriend kind of like watching TV is a replacement for eating dinner...

Not a great analogy. These kids are partially satisfying something with AI girlfriends. I'd liken it more to people giving up on food and living on Soylent.

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Post by jascha_eng »

morelandjs wrote: post #40

Would love some kind of randomized A-B test where CEOs are replaced with AI and the outcome measured. Would not at all be surprised if it’s far better than the bottom quartile or more. More practically, I think you could give a board of directors access to an LLM that sees all levels of company operations and let them talk to that chatbot as a stand-in for the CEO on a 24/7 basis.

tbh AI is great at vague strategic decision making with a low risk bias. I wouldn't mind working for Claude
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