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1.5 trillion? Those are rookie numbers.

How about $5,544,640,717,404.09?

That was in my inbox this morning lmao


> $5,544,640,717,404.09

This is what we received this morning


I just looked and both PA and NJ, have way below natl average car accident deaths per 100K drivers, even if death in over speeding seems to be a a significant contributing factor to overall rates.

Interesting to me. I wonder what are they doing right.


“ Virginia follows Maryland and Oregon in banning the sale of geolocation data. Both Maryland and Oregon more broadly define “sale” to mean the exchange of personal data “for monetary or other valuable consideration.”

I didn’t know this, but I am glad my State already had this! We do some things right.


looks at Android icons

shivvers Please no


Yeah, I guess the rest of the developed world doesn’t really ‘get it’ - fools!


Could America be wrong? No, no, it's the other countries!


they get subsidized by usa pharma industry. Their costs will rise if pharma prices are negotiated by govt here too.


That sounds good to me. Why should millions of Americans die every year because they can't afford their medications just so that other countries can get their meds at extremely low prices? Let's also have the US government negotiate our prices and let things even out across the board.


My GigaOm backpack is still going strong - good merch


what brand?


Apparently, the ‘fuck your feelings’ crowd DOES care about some ‘feelings’


They were actually clear about this, it's only your feelings that don't matter, not feelings in general.

In their minds there are two classes of people, and all of politics and law is about establishing the hierarchy. For the in group, the law is meant to protect and not bind, and the out group for which the law exists to bind but not protect.

It's clear in the language about "criminals" too. Actual convictions and clear corruption in the in group politicians? That's A-OK. An immigrant that is showing up for an official hearing? Time to be whisked away and treated with cruel and unusual punishment, whether or not their bureaucratic forms were filled out perfectly. (In particular I'm thinking of the immigration raid where South Korean professionals were helping to set up a battery factory and treated with chains as if they were violent criminals)


I like the part when he “took full responsibility” for HIS Metaverse mistake, and fired everybody else lmao

Gavin from Silicon Valley did it first


The irony is that I’d totally test out replacing the CEO with AI - best bang for buck by a million miles


Me too. I bet AIs could run a company much better than all of those lavishly paid CEOs. Can't wait for Cyberpunk's Delamain to become a reality.


Who controls the prompt? Shareholders? And how do you have confidence that the prompt is being used? Just thinking out loud, it’s an interesting idea (even if it might be terrible and dystopian).


Based on existing corporate hierarchy it would probably be the board of directors. There would be some sort of collaboration service where managers/agents push up problems and solutions to the board and they vote yes or no


The grandparent comment of yours mentioned Delamain from Cyberpunk 2077. In that fictional scenario, the company purchased an AI which gradually took over its workforce: maintenance robots, drivers, etc. All that was left was the owners/board of directors, essentially.

What ended up happening was that the AI ended up tricking the board of directors by buying back the company for itself.

You find this out by poking around the abandoned offices of the company and read the emails on the computers. The whole reason you interact with Delamain is that it is basically using your human help to do some tasks that it can't do as an AI (fairly compensated, Delamain actually seems like a pretty stand up AI, and the strange legal status of the company is ignored by authorities because so many people depend on the service).

That scenario is starting to seem highly plausible as long as someone is sets up something badly enough.


Can't the board of directors be replaced by a board of AI ?


Yes, if you don’t believe the board ever exercises effective restraint or holds effective responsibility.

Which I understand people believe, but at least consider the possibility of the CEO being fired (and staying fired) by the board.


Sure, but that's not really the point as long as we exist in a world where the ultimate responsibility rests on humans. The alternative is skynet


Would be interesting to have a worker-owned coop where the workers vote on the prompt for the AI CEO.

How wild would that be if in 20 years it turns out one of the main jobs destroyed by AI is overpaid CEOs? A man can dream...


But then we wouldn't have had the metaverse, that was a barrel of laughs.


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