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  • Well sure. CEOs’ main job is to coordinate the functions of major business units with the wishes of shareholders/the board of directors. Ultimately they’re a middleman on the hook for the results of the business without actual direct control of day to day operations.

    Effectively that means they give broad goals and direction to named execs, who translate those goals into actions for their organizations, that middle managers direct their teams to achieve. Then middle managers report success/failure to named execs, who report back to the CEO who (in conjunction with the other named execs) reports success/failure to shareholders & the board along with financial results.

    The execs all are basically on the hook for the results of the decisions made by those below them, but they only decide the broad strokes of the actions of the business.

    LLMs could do most of that. The only problem is they can’t really make decisions properly. But they could pretty easily turn what is said by the board & shareholders into goals for others to enact - and maybe determine if actions taken by the business support the goals to some degree.

    That is like 80% of the job of a CEO.



  • hand gestures, trump voice It’s called ephuba… epheeba… ephebiolphilia, folks, look it up. These girls. Women. Beautiful women, because you know, I’m only attracted to beautiful. I ran the miss USA pagent for years, you know that? I’m very proud of it. They call me up sometimes and say, “Mr. Trump, the evil, socialist communist left says beauty pagents are wrong and we have to give awards to ugly ladies with nose rings. Please come back”. I have to tell them I’m just too busy saving America. But these women aren’t kids. They’re smart, intelligent ladies. The left hates beautiful women. They say “Donald is robbing the cradle he’s a pedophile”. That’s fake news. Fake. News. Children don’t have… well you know just look at these girls. They’re very well-endowed, these ladies and I won’t bow down to the evil communists. They’re the pedophiles folks. Why doesn’t anyone look into sleepy Joe sniffing all those girls’ hair - it’s creepy. But I’m attracted to beautiful. All the most beautiful things… you’ve seen my new bathroom, right? It’s the greatest bathroom in the history of indoor plumbing… Kim told me that on the phone yesterday. He said he could see it through the window in pictures.


  • Compliance does need to be considered. The company I work for is trying extremely hard to comply, but because of complexities and ambiguities in the law, it is difficult to find out how to comply. I don’t know all the details, but I know legal, compliance, and the data engineering teams spend a lot of time figuring out how to be compliant and there aren’t always clear answers.

    That said, the solution is not to roll back protections but to be very explicit about how to comply.













  • This is one thing I think about with AI and technological progress. Optimists say that technological advancement could free people up for more creative work, fund UBI, etc.

    I think that without a serious overhaul of the legal and societal frameworks of Western countries, jobs that only people can do well or are too costly to automate could become the only way to earn a living for most people.

    Like sex work, for instance. The poor underclass would expand, the wealth gap would widen and labor exploitation would become much worse. Voíla, suddenly children seeing prostitution as an aspirational career becomes more common because that may be an increasingly likely eventuality.