But they are at least consistent in being the party that opposes human rights.

Make no mistake: it’s expropriation of the commons.

Nobody’s forcing you to be here.

An AI has no ideology, only a training set and an algorithm.

Sometimes the only way to get heard is for them to go attempt the simple, stupid approach and fail. Then their successors might pay attention.

Yeah, one of my projects right now has been delivering huge value with very few staff-hours being expended in coding. That’s because I (senior architect) and a couple software engineers researched the shit out of it before we started, and found a way to adapt free, existing, running code with minimal effort. I’ve seen two previous attempts to do this job fail expensively and catastrophically. So far, we’ve spent 15% of what either predecessor project cost, and we’ve already got operational code deployed and a solid proof of concept for the rest. That’s because of months of hard thinking and experimentation by my engineers and me. And yeah, that’s right, it meant doing some Big Design Up Front, and fuck you to every agile fanboi who thinks you can accomplish a highly complex integration project without doing that. We’ve already had a couple of those knobheads lose their jobs for failing at previous attempts, then opposing my approach. I’m hiring more real engineers with the freed-up headcount.

Some of this work is irreducibly hard and anyone who thinks they can factorize it into a bunch of parallelized trivial processing doesn’t know the problem space. Snitchware and truncheonware are not going to change that.

Well, writing test scripts can produce shit-tons of code.

If you think it is, you don’t know what an AI is.

we can actually work on eating the rich

I’ve got a simple metric to measure performance on that job. Executable Heads of Billionaires, EHOBs.

Frankly anyone telling you they can measure the value of a line of code without any background knowledge is selling BS.

the previous system of managers not so secretly counting total commits and lines added was comically stupid

That has been known not to work since the 1970s. There’s probably something in The Mythical Man-Month ridiculing lines of code as a performance metric.

Some of the most productive work I ever did involved ripping out 80k lines of executable code and replacing it with 1500.

But I welcome this new BS system

I don’t. Fuck snitchware in all its forms.

Notice that the Daily Heil seems quite happy with such a tool.

And if the goal is to lay off 10% of your workforce, now you have a third-party metric to justify it.

many more companies have reached out to him to sign up within the last few days

They’re looking for a semi-randomized layoff algorithm.

If this guy’s anything but a con artist, he’d show the data that correlates his algorithm with observed performance ratings. And he’d also validate that applying his algorithm is consistent with labor law.

where prices were fixed

I don’t recall flight prices ever being fixed. They always fluctuated based on demand.

Claimed 3% false negatives according to the TSA, not actual false negatives, which are probably far higher. And what’s the false positive rate? How many people are going to get hauled off planes and harassed for no reason?

And now scum like Trump are in control of the TSA. We should have shut it down when we had the chance.

Whether a platform is federated or not is an abstract and irrelevant question to most users. It’s like telling a typical end user that their hardware architecture is big-endian or little-endian. In terms of their usage, it makes no difference.

federated platforms are a major failure, as picking instances and creating accounts is a hassle rather than a convenience

Some UI improvements and simple affordances could make a bit difference to those barriers.

the general public constantly laments about how algorithms have ruined everything.

It’s like the idiots on Facebook complaining that every image was generated by AI. (I have elderly relatives, FB’s the only easy way to keep in touch with them).

Talkin’ 'bout the placebo syndrome.

Starmer needs to make this about foreign billionaires interfering in politics.