We need an American Zelenskyy who would save us from the oligarchs.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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The oligarch class is again showing why we need to upset their cart.
As far as I can tell there hasn't been any tangible reward in terms of pay increase, promotion or external recruitment from using the cognitive amplifier.
If only it were a paycheck amplifier
"A great commander secures his victory before entering into battle. A poor commander first rushes into battle, then searches for victory."
~Sun Tzu, The Art of War
How about we train them on killing billionaires?
Social permission? I dont remember that we had a vote or something on this bullshit.
Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
They don’t have that permission
It's like Facebook's squandering tens of billions of dollars on the Metaverse even though nobody asked for it or wants it. Ultimately they had to give up on it, and the same thing will happen here.
I appreciate the social permission for so many folks to switch to Linux. KDE has come a long way.
you never had it to begin with. Goddamn leeches.
can't keep what you never had you corrupt piece of shit.
AI industry needs to encourage job seekers to pick up AI skills (undefined), in the same way people master Excel to make themselves more employable.
Has anyone in the last 15 years willingly learned excel? It seems like one of those things you have to learn on the job as your boomer managers insist on using it.
How about we get "Universal Basic Income", to respect all the unpaid work?
That'd make my choice of not using Excel (at the expense of risking not getting work) more worthwhile.
... And surviving genocide when welfare was stripped away, fraudulently re-labelling as "fit to work", killing over 130,000 disabled people in Britain from 2010 to 2019, a more worthwhile struggle too.
Otherwise, it seems even if AI does not take jobs, most work done with AI will be unpaid.
I did and it's awesome. People like to shit on Excel, but there is a reason why every business on earth runs on Excel. It's a great tool and if you really learn it, you can do great things with it.
It's just a generic table / matrix thing mostly. Turns out tables are a good way to lay out a bunch of different information.
Somehow nobody has made a similar generic application to allow you to work with nested list, outline, or tree style structures, which I think are equally if not more useful structures to lay out certain types of information.
Tables isn't what make Excel or it's alternatives excel at tasks. If that's all it were, it'd be easily replaced. The formulas and all the other features that help you format, arrange and represent that data is what really makes it good.
Excel depends on the usage. Way too many people want to use it for what it's bad at, but technically can do, instead of using it for what it's good at.
I'm fairly decent at using Excel, and have automated some database dependent tasks for my coworkers through it, which saves us a lot of time doing menial tasks no one actually wants to do.
I love excel, personally. I'm a big ol' nerd and love putting shit in a spreadsheet.
Funny thing about "AI skills" that I've noticed so far is that they are actually just skills in the thing you're trying to get AI to help with. If you're good at that, you can often (though not always) get an effective result. Mostly because you can talk about it at a deeper level and catch mistakes the AI makes.
If you have no idea about the thing, it might look competent to you, but you just won't be catching the mistakes.
In that context, I would call them thought amplifiers and pretty effective at the whole "talking about something can help debug the problem, even if the other person doesn't contribute anything of value because you have to look at the problem differently to explain it and that different perspective might make the solution more visible", while also being able to contribute some valueable pieces.
Holy crap, I think you've cracked it.
LLM AI is the trillion collar costing, terawatt consuming rubber ducky for the new millennium!
I do. Got a free license from my last job and Excel blows the doors off Calc, or anything else. For business, Excel is moat of the reason they're so tied into Office.
I willingly learned excel in the past 15 years!
I have since moved on to open source replacements.
how else are you going to perform, document, and communicate engineering calculations in a format that is simple, intuitive, flexible, and easy to iterate upon?
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"Microsoft thinks it has social permission to burn the planet for profit" is all I'm hearing.
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Take away:
- MS is well aware AI is useless.
- Nadella admits they invested G$ in something without having the slightest clue what its use-cas would be ("something something rEpLaCe HuMaNs")
- Nadella is blissfully unaware of the "social" image MS already has in the eye of the public. You don't have our social permission to still live as a company!
I have a nagging feeling the general public does not hate Microsoft as much as computer nerds do and so probably overall their image is muddled to not that bad overall.
Well you already lost that or rather never actually had that. You all pushed a broken and incomplete product you need to find a use not us...
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