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In other words, if you can tell a convincing growth story, it's much easier to grow. The corollary, though, is that when a growth company stops growing, when it becomes "mature," it experiences a massive sell-off of its stock, as its share price plummets to a tenth or less of the old "growth" valuation. That's why the biggest tech companies in the ... See more

Even companies that are actually profitable (in the sense of bringing in more revenue than it costs to keep the business's lights on) love to juice their stats, and the worst offenders are the Big Tech companies, who reap a vast commercial reward from creating the illusion that they are continuing to grow, even after they've dominated their sector.

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How bad could it be? If you ask the researchers at Anthropic, even if progress stalls out here, current algorithms will automate all white collar work within the next five years: it’s just a matter of collecting the relevant data and spoonfeeding it to the models. In the worst-case scenario, highly repetitive manual labour becomes the last frontier... See more

So why wouldn’t a fledgling AI—even one destined to eventually become very wise and good—do some serious damage before it grows up? Will it be more like a child, learning slowly under our guidance? What will its ‘pulling the wings off flies’ phase look like? Will it treat us as abysmally as we treat other animals?

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A mind with the ability to create new knowledge will necessarily be a universal explainer, meaning it will converge upon good moral explanations. If it’s more advanced than us, it will be morally superior to us: the trope of a superintelligent AI obsessively converting the universe into paperclips is exactly as silly as it sounds.

A 12-Step Guide to Bullshit Work in the Age of AI

Step 1: Schedule a Meeting to Align on Priorities

Launch with a sync to "get everyone on the same page"—a page nobody reads. Auto-invite 12 people who won't attend. Record everything for "transparency," guaranteeing zero future views.

Step 2: Auto-Transcribe the Meeting

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We're all navigating unprecedented uncertainty right now. AI isn't just changing technology—it's reshaping every industry, every role, every assumption about how work gets done.

The leaders and organizations that thrive won't be the ones that double down on yesterday's playbook with today's intensity. They'll be the ones brave enough to look like be... See more

To handle prompt drift (where similar prompts produce inconsistent results), we started treating prompts like code - storing them in our version control system with comments explaining why certain phrases worked better than others. This prompt library has become a valuable team asset.

Let's Get Real About The Problems With AI

A comprehensive index of real issues, misconceptions, and cognitive fallacies in artificial intelligence discussions.