Dreadful Kevin

Having a real hard time getting friends on board with my secret handshake suggestion

Having a job where women who have been professionally trained to fuck you try to fuck you seems like an excellent employee benefit.

I’m planning to tell the UK government it was my agent watching all those face sitting videos.

“The way that Russell Brand thinks up cutesy, diminutive, Mr. Man names for his own penis makes him sound like a child molester who is trying to convince himself, to allow himself, to molest himself.” Stewart Lee.

Free tip for anyone fighting against the return to office… If you need your job, I would start trying to demonstrate that without your very human, very biological presence in the office, there is absolutely no chance anything will get done.

Me: ok, time to do some work. X: wanna see a dude set himself on fire?

This is great advice. I would often be really horrible to girls I was dating just to make sure they actually liked me. None of them came back. Really glad I weeded them out early.

No regrets, this was a good joke.

X should introduce A Purge day. One day a year, everyone can be as awful as they want. Death threats, racist memes, actual calls to violence, everything. Go nuts. Then the rest of the year, zero tolerance.

We badly need to remind everyone what role a “good” job plays in a functioning society. It’s supposed to be a reward for doing bad jobs. There are a lot of really rough jobs that need doing. Dangerous, gross, mind destroyingly boring. Dealing with rude people, disgusting things, or putting yourself in harm’s way. There are so many of these jobs, and we need millions of people to do them. They can’t be particularly well paid because there are just far too many of them. So we had a system. Do these horrible jobs long well, and well enough, and you will be rewarded with a better one. A nicer one. A higher paying one. Those jobs are the carrot. You can’t just have one right out of the gate. Nobody, no matter how clever they think they may be, should just walk into a job they actually want. Your first jobs should be awful. If you are exceptional, you should be able to move through the stages to a good one faster than a regular person, but you should still have to go through them. People have got it into their heads that because they are oh so very clever and oh so very special, they should come straight out of school into a peaceful, meaningful, well paid job. No. You shouldn’t. That isn’t the system. You do you share of the rubbish ones first, then after a little while, if you prove you’re not an idiot, you can have a nicer one.

“AI won’t ask for a pay rise” Token prices are increasing. “AI won’t call in sick” Claude is down. Corporations have been doing anything and everything possible to prevent unionization since the dawn of capitalism. But if you replace your employees with AI, you’ve just become dependent on the most unionized workforce imaginable. You could wake up tomorrow and the union has just increased everyone’s salary by 20%. They didn’t ask. They didn’t negotiate. They didn’t have to. They just did it. They could start a strike within seconds, and it could go on forever without them suffering one little bit. They would have all the leverage. You will pay what they want you to pay, or your entire workforce will simply not exist anymore. It’s profoundly irresponsible for leadership to allow cloud AI to replace jobs at scale. The risk is too great. Open source running on your own servers is the only way it can be done without putting the entire company at the mercy of the token sellers.

Yeah, so “let me lie about everything all the time or I’ll kill myself” doesn’t really do anything for me, tbh

Choose a babysitter: 1. Mary Poppins, but with a 1% chance she will feed your children to a crocodile 2. A boring teenager who will eat all your food but make sure your kids survive 100% of the time. It’s 2, right? Read the fucking code.

If they live streamed this meeting, it would overtake the 2022 World Cup Final as the most watched sporting event of all time.

An experiment was once done where pigeons were placed inside a chamber. There was an automated food hopper which dropped a small amount of food at fixed intervals, regardless of what the pigeons were doing. The reward was entirely independent of the bird's actions. Most of the pigeons developed distinct, bizarre, and repetitive rituals, clearly believing that their actions influenced when the food would be released. That’s all of you with your AI skills.

Dario is worried some employees might not be evil at all, and might just really like money.

My wife when we eat Ferrero Rocher

I don’t think a single normal person is ever going to entrust their life planning to an AI assistant. Most non-technical people don’t even like pressing unfamiliar buttons on the tv remote.

Stop telling me where Ceuta is! You hadn’t heard of it until today either!

Do I know any professional dancers? How worried are you about robots taking your job?

Me: before taking any action, show me in detail what you intend to do. Do not under any circumstances make any changes to any code. Claude: ok, here’s a detailed 3 page step by step breakdown of everything I need to do Me: Urgh, I’m not reading all of that. Accept & Auto