Seriously, what is this nonsense? I can just imagine some bland fellow reading the slides off word-by-word in a monotone while the audience slowly falls asleep. The other guy who helped write the slides watches, hoping that at least the line about murder will come off with some degree of inflection. He puts his head in his hands when no one notices.
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You’ve been at that presentation too?
It’s kind of cruel, but I like to disrupt them by asking the presenter to tell me what every single abbreviation and jargon term he uses actually means, and asking what the axes represent on every single unlabeled graph.
What’s ROI? What’s DHCP? What’s engagement mean - I thought that was when you bought a girl a ring? The left side of your graph is labeled “management buy-in” - what units are you using for that measure? Is that a unit of weight or of volume?
You win the game if you make the presenter start inflecting his voice. You lose if your cow-orkers hate you for making the presentation take twice as long.
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This has a very strong whiff of fakery about it.
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Both ways. This could just as easily be a real proposal or a forgery designed to get people whipped into a frenzy.
It’s - ha ha! - a joke, as they then make clear. Except it’s a joke that works by extending their argument - “normally this is totally illegal - except it’s not illegal in this case, even though we know it’s illegal, because an AI does it” - to it’s logical conclusion. Their argument rests on completely unrelated case law, which also seems like a joke.
That note also seems like a joke. Like the rest of it, really - not a single bit seems serious. If this isn’t a joke, it’s a very weird, incredibly lazy scam.
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either way , it does have a disturbing and ineffable plausibility , eh ?
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Yeah, the inept shittiness of it all gives it a ring of truth.
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WTF? I thought I’d seen every. second. of South Park, but that doesn’t ring a bell… is it from an actual episode?
Wealth Creators were the first people I thought of when I read this:
It is a literally sociopathic vision, in which people are viewed as things to be used rather than people with the agency, feelings and dignity that you yourself possess.
They put a lot of effort into spreading that particular vision, applying it to anyone not in their economic class. We hear them comparing Makers and Takers, or Bootstrappers and Slackers. Every time I read about threats to programs described as the “social safety net,” I wonder if they’ve started referring to the rest of us as tightrope walkers.
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It’s real.
“Freemium isn’t Free” S18E6
So it’s just like a casino, the house always wins?
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I saw AI, game, horrific, dystopian manipulation, and hoped that this described the game world, not the real-world business model. I’m all for a game about a dystopian, manipulative AI (in fact, doesn’t that describe the AI from Portal?), but I wouldn’t want to live in that world.
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