Technology

My dream is that when I search something on the web I get results 100% arranged on relevance with no commercially motivated rearranging of results. I also dream about ad free OSs, but that one came true for me back in 2005 (thanks Linux!).

the leadership at a lot of companies have a very poor read on public sentiment, kind of strange given how much data they collect and how much they like to talk about how good they are at using that data.

And a lot of high level leadership at collages run in the same circles are executives at big companies. These speech events are sort of a benefit for both sides, the leadership at the collage gets to advertise what a good job they’re doing that they were able to get someone so influential to speak, and the speaker gets a sudo-academic platform to state their ideas and an ego boost from the huge in person captive audience.

A lot of them just kind of write off the discontent they see as “a vocal minority”, so when mass confronted with actual public sentiment, i do think it kind of blind sides them.

Why do these colleges keep inviting these chucklefucks to speak to the various student bodies that clearly hate them?

Because the universities are, themselves, riddled with patronage and graft. The privatization of the University systems has turned a lot of these schools into mere extensions of this or that corporate campus. And so the CEOs treat the student body like interns.

Probably to try to get some money in sponsorship. Or because they think these are the really smart guys.

American university to just weird. The university of my hometown tends to get speakers who would you would be excited to meet in the street. They had Patrick Stewart once, everyone was totally fine with him.

Probably. If their primary trait is being a visionary, having creative ideas about how the future could turn out is gonna produce the occasional hit.

The problem is usually that they're so far removed from the lives of normal people that they genuinely can't imagine our perspective anymore: They don't know what day-to-day challenges we face, how our financial worries influence our priorities, how much purchasing power we have, how that influences our price-to-payoff estimates... They also tend to be quite unconcerned with technical limitations and assume there's gotta be a way to implement whatever they cooked up.

3D TV is a great example: In theory is a fancy luxury for people for whom "regular" 2D TV isn't quite enough. In practice, the technology wasn't (yet?) ready to deliver on that, particularly in the face of the various difficulties (having to wear glasses, struggling with eye strain, health issues and so on).

The idea that consumers wouldn't jump at the chance to replace their TVs with a new, expensive and quite clearly immature technology probably didn't intuitively register with people for whom $1k is a negligible sum.

Probably CEOs in the 70’s and 80’s that predicted that computers would become ubiquitous and part of everyday life when computers were still only used by scientists, business people and hobbyists. Like Steve Jobs.

I love the hubris.

Humans aren't evolved to process that much change, says a man who grew up in the 20th century. At the start war was just a scrap in a field, the most advanced piece of technology was an x-ray machine, and a major airport was a relatively flat piece of grass made for gliders made out of wood and canvas, by the end we'd had two world wars and one cold war, computers were everywhere, we had MRI machines and satellites and even a space station in orbit, and there are millions of flights a day on jet liners.

Yeah, no other human has ever lived through so much change.

They can't even fucking troubleshoot basic electronics. The less popular the product, the more likely they are to give you instructions that might kill you. Literally kill you, by the way.

"These graduates are actually both going to be a big part of driving that progress and also dealing with the impact," he added, referring to AI.

Out of context it sounds like a threat, but in connect it just sounds like vacuous CEO-speak, designed to respond to the question with some words while not actually answering the question.

These statements are not meant for the graduates, they are meant for the investors

how could he think people would actually buy this argument?

When you surround yourself with YesMen and hype beast sales guys, how can you not.

idk what you're talkin' about. Luigi didn't do it. He was with me the whole time.

Don't let an innocent man go to jail for what that unnamed gunman did.

Luigi is an automatic upvote. Innocent though he may be. Which he is, innocent. I'm serious, the cops are full of shit, on everything, a manifesto? Gtofo of here, we all wrote that shit after, because health insurance is the devil.

Do you side with Jesus or the Devil?