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Duchamp played the status game of arbitrary signals as representations for high status. He's not a chaos agent. He's a relic of a generation trying to get into galleries and museums for status. It's not even close to meme-culture.
Ok, so Tyler Robinson is a sincere Dadaist in a way that the founders were not.
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Ok, so Tyler Robinson is a sincere Dadaist in a way that the founders were not.
Flush out your headgear oldster. Dada was a status gain group in a hierarchical system. Meme-culture is 21st C non-linear chaos deep in horizontalization. Take your academic art history takes to plain English status seeing magazines.
Just want to memorialize that. Calling it here.
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It doesn't seem to even be about making metrics go up. It's about telling a narrative-reinforcing story: That AI is great. It's worth it. Leadership is right to be obsessed with it. I would have thought that in a fight between "fooling ourselves with a story" and "metrics go up" that the metrics would win, but it seems to not be the case.
Same thing happened to work from home. Meta straight up sabotaged the reason for it's own rebrand in service of it.
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Fair point, The thing about companies asking for slop is that a middle manager maintaining usual stream of vacuous text is a proxy for that person paying attention to a given set of problems and alerting others. AI becomes a problem because someone can maintain a vacuous text stream without that attention. So it's likely to become an arms-race.
> So it's likely to become an arms-race. And this is my real fear with the current crop of AI. That rather than improving the system to require less junk, we just use AI to generate junk and AI to parse AI-generated junk that another AI summarises ad infinitum… Like, instead of building a framework that reduces boilerplate code, we use an LLM to generate that boilerplate instead (in a more complex and confusing manne…
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The nephew has no programming knowledge. He wants to build a website that will turn him into a bazillionaire. He asks AI how to solve problem X. AI provides direction, but he doesn't quite know how to ask the right questions. Still, the AI manages to give him a 70% solution. He will go to his grave before he learns enough programming to do the remaining 30% himself, or, understand the first 70%. Delegating to AI isn'…
Who is "the nephew"?
I'm looking for a new job.
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Same thing happened to work from home. Meta straight up sabotaged the reason for it's own rebrand in service of it.
How do you mean?
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How do you mean?
A return to the office mandate from a company that was not only selling augmented reality but specifically selling remote workplace themed augmented reality applications rather undermines the message.
Also, the RTO mandate can serve as a basis/pretext for layoffs and cost consolidation, although CXOs tend not to admit that directly.
My manager has Claude leave a two-page worthless comment on every single PR we submit, uses copilot to write 20-line "summaries" of 5-line changesets, and once sent my coworker and I a Claude-generated document that was so unclear in its purpose that we both replied "what even is this" after which the manager just ghosted the slack thread and pretended it never even happened. I'm looking for a new job.