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Efficient? You’re too generous. I’d call them short-sighted, or even go as far as to call them looters: they are people who gut companies (again, the word “opti
by iliketosleep 9y ago
Efficient? You’re too generous. I’d call them short-sighted, or even go as far as to call them looters: they are people who gut companies (again, the word “optimize” is too generous!) to boost short-term profits and line their pockets at the expensive of long-term viability in ways you mentioned (cutting out R&D, building of product, etc.)
- myutil 9y agoI call them robots. The robots are great at doing one thing well by hook or crook. Problem is with scale and speed that come with large orgs, the good little robots follow their programming and over optimize the heck out of one little variable. The environment has no time to adapt. Massive unrecoverable collateral damage happens. But the robots are all very pleased with themselves cause their one little self worth defining metric has been met. But as nature already demonstrates highly virulent viruses like these cannot sustain themselves long term. This robot class will die out sooner or later cause the cost for destabilizing the ecosystem every couple days is just too high.
- mycall 9y agoNope. That robot will find another place to go and optimize another variable.
- poa78 9y agoVirulent viruses don't work like that. Once they destabilize one subsystem, the system as a whole takes hit. By the time they switch to which ever other subsystem they want the body is more or less shutting down. That's why highly optimized virus don't last long.
- noway421 9y agoMaybe we are lucky that admission rates into MBA programs are not that high.