Be careful what you wish for. An AI CEO is likely to be more ruthless than most human CEOs, with a singular focus on increasing shareholder value at the expense of everything else, without any "messy" human values to get in the way.
(The Mountain In the Sea is a good read that touches on this.)
The CEO is an employee of the board of directors and the stockholders. An AI CEO would no doubt be as ruthless as a human CEO, if not more so. In other words, I wouldn't anticipate any improvement in CEO behavior.
If I was going to reduce labor costs by +1M/year, I would rather eliminate 1 CEO then 10 radiologists. I would much rather have 1 unemployed CEO in society than 10 unemployed radiologists. At the very least, "AI" should replace through attrition rather than direct layoffs...
Missing the point. If CEOs realize that they're more replaceable by AI than nurses and medical assistants, for example, then maybe they'll take a more nuanced view of the technology.
No, you're missing the point, because the views of the people to be laid off are irrelevant. Again, the stockholders own the company, not the CEO. If CEOs start chaging their tune on AI as soon as their own jobs are at stake, that would just demonstrate to the stockholders that human CEOs are untrustworthy and need to be replaced.
Before AI came along, CEOs were already arbitrarily laying off workers, to please the stockholders. The stockholders like these cost-cutting measures, and whether the measures make sense is secondary to the CEOs doing what their bosses want. If the stockholders believe that they can cut the CEOs too, they surely will.
If anyone is replaceable by AI, executives are first in line. Make "decisions" based on expert input, give presentations, sit in meetings and on calls. No liability, no concrete "work product" to speak of, so why not?
For being supposedly human curated, it's shocking how much garbage has infiltrated the smallweb.txt registry. I have an agent with browser access running right now checking it and it's close to ~10%... Here's a sample of 10 examples that were found in literally the last two minutes...
What’s the review process for all this? It looks to only be you based on git and your HN bio. Can you get some trusted community lieutenants who can police the lists and create a file with their names ? And then anyone can raise a PR to remove or add someone to that list of lieutenants and enough approvals from community can get the PR through. I’m not super familiar with GitHub settings but sure there is a way to setup some sort of democratic process for this.
Love the site btw, but I fear if you don’t get some help you’re going to trust all PRs and let them fly and trust people will issue removal PRs. For instance, my girlfriend loves the concept as well and was immediately hooked but she doesn’t know GitHub, so there’s no practical mechanism for her to remove bad content. And editing files on mobile GitHub is a pain, I probably wouldn’t even consider doing it, especially with a text file that big. So there’s going to need to be some sort of loyal community policing or voting system, because at end of day all these sites could be flipped to bad content as soon as they make it past review.
I wonder how something like ayahuasca or dmt would impact this. People have described these substances as having a type of mental “reset” quality. If they do impact time perception, I’m assuming it’s only temporary…
While I can't speak to these substances, regarding the temporariness of it:
Irrespective of whether or not the effect, or lasting effects, dwindle and can thus be considered "temporary", there's something too be said about the act of the reset itself.
That is, whether or not the effects feel like they're fading, the memory of what it was like when it was new is still a massive data point and can be recalled.
In short, you can still remember that feeling of the reset and recall a time when your brain felt new and refreshed.
The indie web was around before google and it will be around long after google is gone. I would argue that the indie web has incurred a much larger loss from people thinking seo/engagement metrics are something worth optimizing. Many of the best examples of the indie/small web don’t have js tracking and little to no css.
Has anyone tried out Tau [1]? It's similar to Coolify but supports multiple nodes which is appealing to me as I have spotty internet and distributing an app across several pi's in different locations sounds ideal.
If you’re interested in maps and the history of cartography, I highly recommend the book: The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford. Longitude by Dava Sobel is a good follow up.
The book "Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss" by Bradford Matsen is all about Otis Barton, William Beebe, and the Bathysphere. The idea of locking yourself into a steel sphere and descending an order of magnitude deeper than any human had previously (and coming back alive) is wild. It's an excellent book that I found at a used book sale and it kinda sent me into a deep sea exploration rabbit hole. "Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste" by Jacques Piccard descending down to the bottom of the Challenger Deep is also a good one.
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