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Posted by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago

Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable(www.nytimes.com)
455 points | 521 commentspage 7
swingboy 2 days ago|
I fear it's only a matter of time until someone with nothing to lose does more than throw a molotov as Sama's house.
xyst 2 days ago|
who cares? just like the uhc ceo, they will get replaced.

working class is replaceable. So is the "executive" class. Only the billionaire/epstein class will prevail in this hyper capitalistic society.

allthetime 1 day ago||
Imagine other possibilities.
jp57 1 day ago||
They mention Meta's layoffs, which probably have more impact on employee morale than the AI stuff.

My current theory of tech layoffs is that over the last decade or so, churn-inducing practices like stack-ranking have gone out of vogue. One can speculate as to why this happened. Perhaps generational made middle management unwilling to do the dirty work? Nevertheless it happened.

However, companies still want to, and some would argue need to, eliminate low performers, so now they periodically do a companywide reduction in force and frame it with whatever justification is handy, macroeconomic conditions, AI, whatever.

This hypothesis would explain phenomena like companies hiring aggressively during or after a layoff, and why the layoffs keep happening year after year.

Ifkaluva 1 day ago||
Not sure about other tech cos, I think Meta and Amazon currently do stack ranking.

It seems to be a thing that comes and goes as the job market is weaker or stronger

xingped 1 day ago||
Oh don't worry your pretty little head, stack-ranking and churning are still _very_ in vogue with the tech companies.
Tenoke 1 day ago|
In 2019 I suggested[0] you might reach AGI if you train on computer usage - mouse movement, keypresses, what's on the screen etc. - and it sounds like Meta are kind of trying some form of it.

0. https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/human-imitating-task/

codemog 1 day ago||
A lot of people had this idea. You’re going to have to take a vague idea to fruition if you want the props you’re looking for.
Tenoke 1 day ago||
Can you point me to them? I couldn't find anyone writing a version of that idea back then, I'd be curious to read how others framed it.