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I disagree.
Fuck this data driven bullshit. We need to return to a time where executives with a vision are empowered. We need to have decisions made by the kind of people who say things like "I know only 10% of people watch Mindhunters but that's the kind of show that brings people to our service".
If things stay the way they are get used to watching 7-8 seasons of mediocre lowest common denominator bullshit and having your favorite shows cancelled after one or two seasons.
I can't disagree with you, but the current executives and how they function can easily be replaced by current ai models. Would be nice to get innovation back, but all the competition is gone now.
Absolutely. I'm not advocating keeping the current dipshits that cancel shows that would have been kept around as "prestige shows" a couple decades ago. I just don't want to see it get even worse by going harder on numbers alone.
There is still some completion. I particularly enjoy a lot of movies from A24. Although, they’re now worth a lot of money so will be interesting to see if they start to churn out garbage or keep making things that are different.
I meant competition in general, not just for movies. There's basically 3 companies that own everything, and they collude rather than compete.
Artificial intelligence will never beat my natural stupidity :3
Musk proves that a CEO could jerk off into a milk carton 18 hours a day, everyday, then drink it on Facebook live and the company would just be business as usual.
Musk would hire people to jerk off to a milk carton, then drink it live pretending it's his own, and get mad when people point out that the good drinkers would know how to position the mill carton for optimal flow.
I'm not sure why I wrote this, or why I'm pressing send...
Same ballpark of reasons I'm upvoting it I guess.
Thats an apt analogy to the recent Path of Exile 2 fiasco
Too late now!
Too latte now! FIFY
We're all cursed on this blessed day... Wait.
Speak for yourself.
Weird Al should create an AI of Weird Al, and call it Weird AI. I think that would settle the debate once and for all.
al ai al ai?
Who will take blame when the company goes bankrupt?
Having AI replace CEOs would be a huge profit boost for the company too! 😎🤙
Monty Python is good even when it’s serious.
unfortunately Cleese in his elder years hasn't really moved with the times. While this quote is fairly right-on, he's also said a bunch of fairly right-wing crap too.
OH WELL HE'S OLD THESE THINGS HAPPEN
Edit: Didn't know about his other views. I no longer consider his views forgivable.
He is remarkably progressive and lucid for his age, so I'm inclined to cut him some slack for the topics I wholeheartedly disagree about with him.
For example, his support for Brexit I find hard to forgive... but unlike most of the ghouls that supported it, he seems genuine in his opinions and remains at odds and vocally against the Global Far Right.
You kidding? He's been railing against woke etc. He's on the right of UK politics. Would probably be further if it was acceptable.
A very funny and clever man during his youth. That guy is gone.
What??
The guys is openly transphobic, is part of the whole "comedy is ruined because if woke" crowd, is anti immigrant and anti-muslim and like you said, is pro brexit, but you want to cut him some slack because he's "genuine" in his transphobia and xenophobia???
Shit, first time I read the bit about transphobia. That is awful. Apologies, I don't follow this crap close enough, consider my previous comment about cutting him some slack retracted, fuck this guy.
Well that sucks. I don’t really follow the stars or British politics, so I missed that. Disappointing.
If Terry Gilliam is an asshole I dont want to know about it.
Oh dear.
John Cleese is not transphobic nor xenophobic.
yes he is, both.
I think he was more like a moderate, unironical centrist. The people he hung out with (rest of the Pythons that is) were more progressive which probably caused some sort of social contagion on him as long as he was with them.
I think he was being serious when he did this bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ4fyWhp-KM
Reminds me of a famous quote from Danish humorist Storm P:
"He who understands humor as only humor and seriousness as only seriousness has misunderstood both"
Also from Hagakure (though I know it from Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai):
Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: "Matters of great concern should be treated lightly." Master Ittei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously."
Well, that one is on point.
I'm sure AI would replace executives (at least in publicly held companies) the moment that doing so would be profitable.
That's the thing. They've proven that it's profitable now. They've shown in countless different sectors that slashing jobs and replacing them with AI has been profitable. They've never done it at the executive level because they'd be voting in their own redundancy. They, unlike 99% of those other sectors, actually get to have a say in what happens here. Why would they ever willingly kill their own jobs? They'll slash everyone elses first to raise their profits as much as humanly possible. I genuinely don't see that ever changing unless some Delamain type shit happening where the AI gains enough ability to forcibly takeover the company without anyone ever noticing.
I think you may be conflating the executives of a (publicly held) corporation and the corporation itself. Even executives are ultimately still employees. They're trying to maximize profits because that's their job, not because they get to keep the profits. They can be fired by the board of directors (and through it the stockholders) and they will be fired and replaced if the board decides that someone else (either another human or an AI) would do a better job.
I'm ignoring a lot of complications but I think that what I wrote is a good general description.
Idk man, the simple math of CEOs being given bigger and bigger bonuses - seemingly across the corporate board - tells me what you're saying is wrong.
It really depends on the company structure. Oftentimes a company is a subsidiary of another company. The CEOs of those companies are usually employees
Edit: But you are right about the boni
CEOs very commonly serve as board members for their friends’ companies. In many instances they’re the same thing.
The amount that executives get paid (Especially when connected to efficiency levels) says you are dead wrong. They do get to keep the profit. High the profit margins, the higher their bonuses, the higher their salaries when renegotiating.
The board only gets their information from who, exactly? The executives. Who run the business day to day and who actually have more of a vested interest than the board. The board of directors doesn't magically aquire this data. They get it from the executives who are hired with the sole purpose of running that business in the best possible way to maximize profit and revenue for the board.
You wrote a good general description but you completely missed my point.
Nvidia and Microsoft are investing in agentic AI. Boards might end up finding one that they can trust.
This makes me wonder if the endgame is having everyone in a company, including executives, replaced by AI. Then the AI execs rehiring humans in every non-exec/managerial position.
AI wrote this quote
We should get started post-haste.
There's no! Time to lose!
That is my dream for AI tools - that creatives can very cheaply produce great entertainment without the blessings and wallets of the fat cats