they're typically sociopaths, narcissists, or both. other people hardly exist
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Same reason religions demand you tithe but refuse to pay taxes, even though they don’t deny Christ said, “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and render unto God what is God’s,” which is to say, fulfil your obligations to the government before fulfilling your obligations to God.
When somebody insists that the food they made is good and that you should have some but refuses to eat it themselves, you know that they're lying and the food is shit.
oh hey, you were at the big family dinner last night.
it was my mother's turn to cook and she didn't eat anything. there was enough food, just it was really, really bad.
pro cooking tip for all y'all out there: never, and i do mean never, go into your spice cabinet and just grab seven random spices to season a dish. actually think about what you're cooking.
she made rice with garam masala and cream of tartar, dill, garlic, basil. like what the fuck.
It could've worked, but one doesn't do such risky culinary experimentations when cooking for others.
or ASKS them whether they want to be a test mouth. doesn't make it the whole damn meal.
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CEOs do less for a company than the average worker. A company can run for a long time without a CEO, but get rid of your finance team, IT team, production team, or customer service team (all of which are much cheaper than a single CEO) and see how long your company lasts.
My theory is short term decisions are generally made much further down the decision hierarchy and the CEOs main job SHOULD be more long term vision and planning. Most companies, except for a few, make decisions based on what makes them the most money in the shortest term so in effect the CEO doesn’t do shit and likely could be replaced by an AI. I wouldn’t be surprised to find most CEOs at this point are just highly paid proxies asking AI what to do.
There are companies that work that way. In my experience, they either meddle in lower-level affairs themselves or command their department heads to do so on their behalf.
Part of that I AM THE VISION is super easy to corrupt into WHY ARE YOU SO SHORT SIGHTED IN THE DAY-TO-DAY
My last couple CEO's have been S tier. They went out, brought in the investors, distributed the money downhill reasonably well.
I've worked with plenty who couldn't keep their dicks out of the company minutiae, metaphorically or physically.
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.
Those poor tools sound like they don’t get used very often.
I think you already know the answer because you asked the question.
The CEOs are the ones trying to convince everyone (investors really) that AI can replace humans to try to increase profits. That's it.
LLMs/AI are fantastic tools, but that's all they are. Just tools. The CEOs are selling the AI revolution fantasy.
They're an entertainment technology, not a revolutionary business technology as they claim, so their maximum value is constrained by the boundaries of the entertainment market rather than being a significant fraction of the World's Economy: basically they'll at best have a Social Media Tech-sized Economic footprint, not an Industrial Revolution one.
However, that shit was sold to investors as an Economic Revolution and the investment footprint is proportional to that prospect and thus way bigger than it would be for "this will be as big as Social Media", and by now all that's left to try and keep that massive block of investment from crushing the far too narrow columnn or returns, is ever more desperate spinning of hopes and dreams fables.
If AI was anywhere close to that good, they wouldn't be encouraging the masses to use it, they would be hoarding access for their own benefit.
Because it’s not that good.
AI is an excuse. AI is an excuse to: reduce staff, hoard resources, sustain dependency on a rental economy, stifle creatives (who might have subversive messages!), surveil the world quickly by summarizing huge amounts of cloud stored files, create false evidence, cast doubt on real evidence, fleece investors, and finally, convince everyone you’re “the NEXT Bill Gates/tech messiah”
Why couldn’t these fuckers just sink their money into fusion instead? We need that way more badly.
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Why would a CEO choose to stop receiving a paycheck?
Because the CEOs are the ones making the decisions
It's not that good.
Much of a CEO's role is schmoozing with other rich assholes. AI can't do that. Maybe once it can buy hookers and blow.
Every LLM bot I have tried is an expert at schmoozing. Even when I don't want it to
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Because you can't scapegoat an AI when the business does something illegal.
interesting, if ai that good, why there is no company founded by ai? :D
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Cause LLMs can't yet be nepo babies
One of the weird things about ceos, in USA at least, is that one of their roles is to be the fall guy for the board if things go badly. If they screw up badly enough, it's expected that they'll find it hard to be hired as CEO elsewhere, which they use to justify outsize compensation plans. I'm not sure AI would fulfill that role, nor the schmoozing aspects
I'm my experience it's pretty uncommon for a CEO to struggle finding a new position no matter what transpired at their previous company. Golden parachutes and failing upwards are way more common
Been saying this for a year now. If they replace us, why not replace them? I was personally told it's because the connections a CEO has. Well, if my CEO had connections my ESPP wouldn't have lost 40% since buying it 2 years ago.
They will
AI can't roll around in a pool full of money.
Wait until they virtually roll in crypto.
I remember people talking about DAO during the crypto hype. That's quite curious that techbros didn't try to revive the concept with gen ai
The crypto bro’s whole premise is that other people’s computers are untrustworthy - the whole concept of a blockchain is that when someone declares a transaction, the other network members all verify its legitimacy by (at least) a simple majority.
They’re not going to just let Sam Altman or Elon Musk pilot their DAO. That’s someone else’s computer running the show!
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because it's not about how well a job can be done, it's about running the fucking show.
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