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Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 month ago

Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 month ago
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
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    And when computers make all management decisions, let us not forget that managers told them to do so, lest we forget whom to hold accountable.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    Reminds me of Woz’s old saying “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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      That became easier with phones huh.

      • lauha@lemmy.world
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        Yes, really easy to throw cloud out the window

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          With clouds it’s easy, they are already outside the windows.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      I don’t know, the smallest computer I have in operation is the sketchiest one.

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    Executives today:

    This means if we put AI somewhere in our decision making, we can no longer be held accountable.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    Since when are managers held accountable? Is this new?

    • Wojwo@lemmy.ml
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      You know “accountability”, it’s when an executive fucks up and gets to retire early with a multimillion dollar golden parachute.

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    That’s the neat thing, you can deny accountability by blaming the computer’s decision

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      A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

      THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISIONs

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      deleted by creator

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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        I understand that there is always a fall guy. Even before AI was shoved everywhere, those really responsible for the problems they created were not held accountable and put the blame on a fall guy.

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    promptly

    Very meta

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    That’s why board executives and business are so excited about it

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      They can finally get rid of McKinsey and blame it on cheaper and faster trendy butthole logo of the month.

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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        Why would they get rid of McKinsey? That would make dinner at the club super awkward!

    • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
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      It’s not my fault

      I was just following orders

      It’s just company policy

      It’s just a misstep in the algorithm

      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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        I’m sorry the computer said layoffs so… Get fucked.

        • EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world
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          Ai says you’re not a citizen. Deported.

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    Let’s be honest though, most managers, maybe ~60% could be replaced by AI. If you want evidence, think of anyone who goes to meetings, and those who go to meetings all day element 90% of meetings, at minimal. Those jobs shouldn’t exist. They are what people like Bezos/Musk believe should not exist.

    Now, how does one get from being nothing, and never being in meetings to being someone making money… You can’t, unless you know someone. AI is an “American Dream” killer

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      Well that’s the exact reason these people are so horny for AI.

      https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

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      There are studies showing that LLM AI is competitive against human C suite managers. When issues like AI hallucinations are brought up, it turns out that human C suite managers also make shit up all the time.

      One interesting thing they found was that AI doesn’t do as well if there is a shock to the economic system like Covid.

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    TBF Management can barely make any management decisions either…

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      are are rarely held accountable.

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    As a US citizen, this logic need to be applied to corperations. The C_Os make all the decisions for the company, the Campany should not be held as responsible for the shitty actions of its Board. The Board should be held accountable for the companies actions be required to served by all the C_Os. I say served, I mean fines and prison time ,in all cases, as a fine is paid personally by the person and time is served aslo bu the person.

    I know fine are just a temporary for “legal fo .a price” fine should be paid to hut them so Retirement accounts are taken, future earning are taken, income from salary+bonus at time of infraction are taken, and close loops of off shore accounts

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      Agreed except you better not touch my extremely meager retirement account for some shit the CEO did. I will go full uno bomber.

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        Thats where the legislation can put the lawyer talk in to address it is the personal accounts of the C_Os

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    This is sad, not humorous

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    The computer can’t be held accountable, but the programmer and operator can.

    I could go on a whole thing about mission rules and command decisions here, but I’m sick of typing for the day.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      So when is Musk getting held accountable for making a literal US funded Nazi waifu bot

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        When the humans win the class war against the lizards.

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        Lol what? I’m so out of the loop

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    Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

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      Try to stop me.

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    A complete one-eighty nowadays…“As a highly paid “business” exec I have no ideas…computer, tell me what to do.”

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    But a computer works for “free” so “not being held accountable” is even better!!

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