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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] xantoxis 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They don't care. At the moment AI is cheap for them (because some other investor is paying for it). As long as they believe AI reduces their operating costs*, and as long as they're convinced every other company will follow suit, it doesn't matter if consumers like it less. Modern history is a long string of companies making things worse and selling them to us anyway because there's no alternatives. Because every competitor is doing it, too, except the ones that are prohibitively expensive.

[*] Lol, it doesn't do that either

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Assuming MBAs can do math might be a mistake. I've worked on an MBA pet project that squandered millions in worker time and opportunity cost to save 30k mrc...

[–] xantoxis 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eh, they understand "number go down"

[–] netvor 7 points 2 months ago

and the smarter ones can even look at two or more separate numbers

[–] MataVatnik 5 points 2 months ago

I read this article that out of the 10 top Harvard MBA grads 8 of them had have gone to tank the company they were CEOs at. Or something ridiculous.