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I'm still slightly peeved about an old CEO that was all about "making data driven decisions" but when people presented data he didn't like he'd ignore it.
"Hey a couple studies are showing that 4 day work weeks are a net positive, do you-"
"We're not doing that "
"But look at this data."
" Next question."
It's always like that. "Facts before ego", except when it's your facts and my ego.
This is why we need to replace humans workers with AI starting at the top instead of the bottom.
Bad idea. In order to get a computer to do anything useful, you must first be honest about what outcome you want. This means saying the quiet part out loud, resulting an an AI prompt something like:
Develop a business plan optimizing for shareholder value, maximizing bonus payout for top leadership, leveraging all company assets, while avoiding lawsuits that will end the company. Legal problems are okay provided they do not interfere with increasing company value. Assume full workforce productivity and minimal depreciation on assets.What follows is a cutthroat business plan that will make a killing on Wall St. in the short run, and make everyone in said business absolutely miserable. All remaining ethics that are left at the C-level get thrown right in the trash. Also: this kills the environment.
True, but I'm hoping they just feed in their company mission and the AI goes insane trying to make sense of it
Or, we could just implement the algorithms that are already available, and not tell it to maximize shareholder value, but instead company productivity, and you'll get the most efficient companies possible.
There was an article back in 2011 that predicted that middle and upper management were already completely replaceable using management algorithms. They want the tech to replace the rest of us before they implement that level of automation.
I have no mouth and I must scream. We're already there with the stock market, we just have useless ceo's.
At a "town hall", many months ago ...
VP: We would like to hear feedback from all of you.
Me: And what would be the best way we can provide you with that feedback?
VP: ...
VP: (thinking - obviously didn't have an answer for this)
VP: ...
VP: just email me.
what he really meant was he felt really good when data backed his priors