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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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walrus01 wrote: post #32
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

> living in NYC, I have met a ton of harvard/yale "CEOs" > they are absolutely clueless. That's because you aren't asking them about their college rowing days, yachting, collecting weird mechanical wristwatches, equestrian sports, the best restaurants in the Hamptons or other matters on which they are uniquely suited for and qualified.

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Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by chucksmash »

vachina wrote: post #7
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…

AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.

Because I don't have a CEO?

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by pdpi »

afavour wrote: post #11
vachina wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.

Think you’re going to need to elaborate on that

AI can’t replace genuine 1:1 human interaction. We’re social animals, and a machine pretending to be a human can’t engender the same emotional response as another human.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by IshKebab »

meindnoch wrote: post #21
vachina wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.

I think your workplace might have a problem with sexual harassment.

I think you misunderstood his (quite obvious IMO) point.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

Good effort, but the ultimate goal has to be replacing the entire planet's economic stack with AI, from janitors to principal engineers to the entire board to dictators to Elon Musk's drug dealer, and creating a closed-bottle AIconomy trading entirely in AI speculation on the blockchain.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by mikert89 »

walrus01 wrote: post #32
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

> living in NYC, I have met a ton of harvard/yale "CEOs" > they are absolutely clueless. That's because you aren't asking them about their college rowing days, yachting, collecting weird mechanical wristwatches, equestrian sports, the best restaurants in the Hamptons or other matters on which they are uniquely suited for and qualified.

This hits so close to home im not even sure how to reply. The horror of these people needing to actually have an indepth discussion about low level details of their business

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by SecretDreams »

bratao wrote: post #54

I know this is a common trope here, and yeah, plenty of MBA-type CEOs are trash. But speaking as a founder/CEO of a small company, the quality gap between an average hire and top talent at the director level is night and day. Proven talent comes with a massive price tag, but it's almost always worth it. The times I regretted going with the 2nd or 3rd place candidate because they were cheaper ended up setting us back…

I'd feel better hearing this type of sentiment from someone with less vested interest in this type of sentiment.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by actionfromafar »

JohnHaugeland wrote: post #45
b112 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Is it the same kind of middle management? Was the 1980 kind well paid, and the current one not?

(I have no idea, but now I wonder.)

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