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Comment · 6 hours ago
Well in large corp this takes time, even if you have an army of Einsteins at your disposal (just like we saw with Elons Doge) because there will be 16 different spreedsheets/dbs talking abt the state of the system that all contradict each other. While the 6 people who maintain their own state to keep the lights on, will have job titles that have nothing to do with system state maintenance.

Small companies its hit or miss cuz they are overwhelmed by the pace of change. Basically no one wants to hear things will take time. Intelligence is just one system variable and others dont just auto sync.

Comment · 9 hours ago
Mass reskilling is already happening. Certifications basically retraining people.

The issue, in large orgs, is not that the tool can do a decent job, its that a huge amount of institutional knowledge is not encoded or encodable.

Initially the thinking was people will transfer all Institutional knowledge/operations mpdel into the system, but in reality how people run ops and how they say they run ops is not the same.

Exposing the gap doesnt work because many of the things keeping the lights on, involve taking shortcuts, hiding stuff, avoiding stuff, bribing/flattering others etc Orgs allow it to an extent because it gives them an edge over competition.

Training AI to do all that is much more tricky because it changes who has power inside an org. So the thinking has turned into retrain people to use the tools better to keep doing what they are doing.

Comment · 1 day ago
If you print money, you are the bank. Tokens are the new currency.
Comment · 2 days ago
I tell it I am a chimp with a 3 inch brain so complexity beyond chimp scale is forbidden unless requested. And to apply theory of bounded rationality during all chimp interactions. Takes care of me like a spl circus animal.

I ask it for a quick complexity thermometer reading when ever the rabbit hole is looking like it might explode.

Also walking away from it every few hours and doing random simple mindless stuff has helped. Like I will go inspect my fish and plants. Try to have a chat with the cat, get others around to do a little dance etc etc.

I have a priest in the family who has to deal with lot of heavy duty stuff/people's problems. They train them not to get totally sucked in and loose themselves. He calls it grounding. Just simple mundane things to focus shift out of anything heavy.

Comment · 2 days ago
Have you heard about religion? Its fiction too. Yet it has survived as long aa the chimp troupe has. The human brain generates predictions over different time horizons. When they dont align what is it supposed to do to prevent itself unraveling? It generates fiction. Fiction is how it stays stable.
Comment · 4 days ago
To find good applicable problems you have to be inside or close to an eco system that is constantly working on these problems. Otherwise its like Napolean Dynamite trying to make Star Wars in Idaho because Uncle Rico gave him a free camera and Kip gave him an article about George Lucas. Got to move closer to Hollywood Napolean.
Comment · 5 days ago
Palpatine is quite mesmerizing. He will invite to his yatch, island, show you toys etc. "You want to be like me do what I say". Works on most of the chimp troupe since the dawn of time. #TheoryoftheLeisureClass
Comment · 5 days ago
So just like working with People :) You might have a Snowden, Mark Felt, Jeff Wigand etc working with you everyday.
Comment · 6 days ago
They do have big advantanges because many large corps have become totally dependent on them having outsourced everything and lost internal knowledge. That internal ops knowledge is very crucial/useful to take full advatange of what AI offers. In the coming years much of it will leak into frontier models. After which corps might not need IBM/TCS etc and just rebuild internal teams to handle ops like they once did.
Comment · 6 days ago
Depends on context of what people build.

I mean IBM already has a track record of building gigantic amounts of garbage and over charging large corps and govts for it coasting on their brand name and networks to get deals. So using some cheap ass model fits their MO. Having used their shit mountain called websphere, what an IBM CEO says is not something I take too seriously.

Comment · 6 days ago
I dont know the solution. But I think Shannon is being brushed under the carpet. Noise levels and random outcomes speak for themselves.
Comment · 7 days ago
Social media permits Broadcasting for Free. One to All messaging. For all other media - radio, satellite, tv, phones broadcasting requires licenses. Why?

Cuz Claude Shannon told us if everyone broadcasts on the same frequency noise increases and no one hears anything forcing them into broadcasting at higher and higher power or repeating their messages more and more. Which again increases noise. So Broadcasting has always been licensed and regulated. That solved the Noise problem because people were forced to coordinate use of broadcast spectrum.

Social media platforms act as if Shannon doesn't apply. So they do exactly what Shannon predicted. Everyone is broadcasting. No one can be heard clearly. People scream louder and louder. The loudest get locked into arms races. Repeat their messages more and more. At the end of it all Noise hasnt reduced and who gets attention from one day to the next is unpredicatble. And since Platforms dont want to talk about Shannon we are all stuck in some kind of red queen dynamic. People are expending lot of energy. Results are all temporary and unpredictable.

Comment · 7 days ago
Maybe its a good thing, if people loose interest in such folk. A sort of fatigue can set in I guess. A never ending stream of loathsome people, seem to have been propped up by the Attention Economy. Provoking others gets Attention. Also why Musk got worried and had to buy a platform when there was a threat to being blocked from getting Attention. But maybe the system has some upper limit.
Comment · 7 days ago
Before AI showed up the UN released a report on the Attention Economy. It said Supply of content had vastly outstripped Demand. It decoupled because entertainment/media was being used to push other products. The telcos, amazon, google/fb and many others were all subsidizing content to push some other product. Exploding info chasing finite non growing eyeballs and time.

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