Comment by WiSaGaN
1 month ago
It's one of the things you need to do if you want your company to later become the only company in the world. They also promised that they would treat you nicely afterwards after they get what they want.
1 month ago
It's one of the things you need to do if you want your company to later become the only company in the world. They also promised that they would treat you nicely afterwards after they get what they want.
> become the only company in the world
This is not a necessary end state. It is the byproduct of the disease of sociopathic MBAs.
It does seem like a lot of the valuations and infrastructure investments for these companies only make sense if each one assumes they will be the first and only one to invent superintelligence and that it will largely replace all knowledge work.
In which case the global economy is dead and there’s no one to buy their work?
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Remember: MBAs are sociopathic by training.
(Source, worked for multiple tech companies that were laser focused on delighting customers until money people came in and ruined it, to the point they would prefer devs sit idle than work on things the MBAs didn’t have on a priority list).
That sounds like my last job.
> sociopathic MBAs
For the record, with the exception of Amazon’s Jassy, the CEOs of the top 5 companies are all engineering types with engineering credentials.
The CEO credentials of the top 5 AI companies are all science degrees.
Google’s CEO is an IIM graduate
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what does having engineering credentials have to do with being a sociopath?
Sure, the guys focused on tech don't usually think with an empathy of a nurse (novadays not even nurses are guaranteed to be empathetic), but I know quite a few devs and IT people who are extremely pro-social.
It's the managerial, financial-oriented mindset that is the greatest predictor of sociopathic character.
The more power one has in an organization the more socio- and psycho-pathic they tend to be, simply because it's easier to get to the top if you are an amoral person, who is not holding back for any reason other than having power. That is why absolute power corrupts absolutely.
MBAs are bred to be sociopathic money-grabbers - I know that from experience.
I once made the mistake of going into an MBA program. On the very first lecture the lecturer asked each participant for his/her motivation for being there.
Most of them said 'money' and those who didn't were asked again until they caved-in and said 'money' as well or they were laughed out by the lecturer.
MBAs are expected to be sociopathic or you as a company shareholder won't be able to motivate them easily to do your bidding.
It's like public/private schooling, but worse - those programs are designed to create mindless drones for the institutions that use them for their own policy enforcement.