Exactly

I’m dead 💀

Hey yknow that’s a good point.

You didn’t present any ideas or solutions to argue against. There’s no argument happening here.

Nor are there strawmen because there’s no argument being made.

You said that there’s generally a lack of imagination with regards to this stuff and I was just sharing my opinions as to why.

I think most people (correctly imo) don’t see how a large enough company can operate without some hierarchy, which seems to run up against the idea of being entirely equally employee owned.

There’s always going to be leaders (manager or just someone who others listen to) That person necessarily has more responsibility and control than his peers and is justly compensated more (otherwise nobody would put in extra work, say, to train as an engineer or doctor)

That person has their own interests that don’t always line up with the company and may use their influence to guide the company in a way that benefits them.

Suddenly you have a worker class and a bourgeois-esque class.

Most people (incorrectly imo) think that the “unbiased” checks and balances in government counteract that.

If there’s another option that accounts for hierarchies in large employee owned and operated companies let me know…. please

EDIT: large as in number of employees

It def adds some flavor to the social media political scene

The news bot posts are more annoying to me than the politics.

At least here there’s more than trump lovers and trump haters.

I hate scrolling into infinite bot posts with 0 comments

Looks like they got that number from this quote from another arstechnica article ”…OpenAI admitted that its AI Classifier was not “fully reliable,” correctly identifying only 26 percent of AI-written text as “likely AI-written” and incorrectly labeling human-written works 9 percent of the time”

Seems like it mostly wasn’t confident enough to make a judgement, but 26% it correctly detected ai text and 9% incorrectly identified human text as ai text. It doesn’t tell us how often it labeled AI text as human text or how often it was just unsure.

EDIT: this article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/openai-discontinues-its-ai-writing-detector-due-to-low-rate-of-accuracy/

Complicated issues are complicated. Neither Reddit, lemmy, Twitter (x?), nor any social media platform is particularly well suited towards discussing complex decisive topics.

Lemmy has some very aggressive communists.

I’ve been lucky enough to dodge the crazy right wingers though.

People are dumb.

I mean it should always be some kind of removed 3rd party drawing the lines. But nobody in power wants to give that power up.

People way into politics and pedophiles always causing trouble on the internet

I have to disagree. I’ve been conducting interviews for a fairly large software shop (~2000 engineers) for about 3 years now and, unless I’m doing an intern or very entry level interview, I don’t care what language they use (both personally and from a company interviewer policy), as long as they can show me they understand the principles behind the interview question (usually the design of a small file system or web app)

Most devs with a good understanding of underlying principles will be able to start working on meaningful tasks in a number of days.

It’s the candidates who spent their time deep diving into a specific tool or framework (like leaving a rails/react boot camp or something) that have the hardest time adjusting to new tools.

Plus when your language/framework falls out of favor, you’re left without much recourse.

I think all religions are just fake copycats of the one true god.

Praise be Flying Spaghetti Monster

A programming language itself isn’t a marketable skill!

Learn the underlying concepts of programming and how computers work and you’ll be able to move from language/framework to pretty much any language/framework easily.

I think rust is good for learning some low level concepts, especially coming from python.

I don’t think Python is going anywhere in the ML space though.

BuT coORPEratIOns arE PeOplE

“In collectives” gives me big brave new world vibes.

You have no idea why? Really? It’s to get people thinking about / trying bing.

It’s all advertising.

We’re going to enter another search engine (read chatbot) war.