Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
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#2Previously discussed 1d ago:
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#3If too many people comment on this, it will get removed from the front page again. I realize this is a bit hypocritical by commenting this.
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#4I am surprised this is a new startup. Amazon has long been practicing micro Taylorism on every worker.
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#5I saw that the YC Twitter account has now scrubbed the announcement post, I was surprised to see very little discussion about it here until now
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#6This is the kind of AI that leads to turnover like Amazon that is so bad they are so desperate for warehouse staff they took to mass junk mailing people to try and find new hires because they fired all the eligible ones.
serious late stage capitalism stuff right here and goes against the advice of successful business leaders that you have to instill trust and confidence in your team to get them to perform.
Whoever made that AI should read Ricardo Semler and Paul Orfalea and stop drinking the tech bro get rich kool-aid and build a business that makes the world better, not worse.
Re: Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
#7I am surprised this is a new startup. Amazon has long been practicing micro Taylorism on every worker.
it got so bad i got junk mail from amazon to resident today looking for warehouse workers
Re: Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
#8If too many people comment on this, it will get removed from the front page again. I realize this is a bit hypocritical by commenting this.
Going to favorite it just so I can find it before it gets flagged. We have to redo the flagging system for HN, it's a complete joke. Why do they persist in the idea that it is better than simple upvotes and downvotes?
Re: Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
#9Previously discussed 1d ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166249
Much more discussion in these posts, which AFAICT tend to quickly fall afoul of either user flagging or the HN flamewar detection and drop off the front page:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850 Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers (476 points, 163 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023 'Hey Number 17 ' (329 points, 125 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180133 Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral (203 points, 73 comments)
Re: Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
#10If too many people comment on this, it will get removed from the front page again. I realize this is a bit hypocritical by commenting this.
Going to favorite it just so I can find it before it gets flagged. We have to redo the flagging system for HN, it's a complete joke. Why do they persist in the idea that it is better than simple upvotes and downvotes?
None have been flagged. As I understand, if there's more comments than upvotes in a short period, it's automatically considered engagement bait and deranked.
Edit: Per Dang, they have been flagged, but HN has opted to turn off flagging for YC companies.
> It set off the flamewar detector. Moderators haven't touched it, except that we turned off the user flags on the story. Otherwise it would be displaying [flagged] at the top.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850