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It is much harder to build something vast than it is to haul a lump of rock up a hill. Nadella may not be carrying rocks but he's the one figuring out which ro
by SR2Z 2y ago
It is much harder to build something vast than it is to haul a lump of rock up a hill.
Nadella may not be carrying rocks but he's the one figuring out which rocks and where they should go.
- surgical_fire 2y agoThis is just the reflection of a bullshit culture that gives outsized importance to executives.
- zpeti 2y agoWhy is Microsoft winning the ai race, not google who everyone said is best placed? Was this a collective decision by thousands of Microsoft employees, to go in this direction? Is it thousands of google employees fault they missed it? By your logic it is absolutely google employees fault, not executives… really?? The bullshit culture is actually thinking executives don’t do anything. Yet even a tiny bit of critical thinking would show you it has massive impact.
- surgical_fire 2y agoAnd yet, Google's CEO is not punished for "losing the AI race". Or for anything else really. > By your logic it is absolutely google employees fault, not executives… really?? My logic is that placing an outsized importance on executives is just a way to justify inequality, when in truth they risk nothing. Even if their bets fail, it is the peons who pay the price.
- inglor_cz 2y agoI would argue that coordinating efforts of thousands of people is freakishly complicated. People aren't machines and respond to incentives in nontrivial ways. Anyone who is physically healthy can carry a stone, but few places in the world built the pyramids. Analogically, anyone with two hands can type something on a keyboard, the hard part is getting a useful software product out of this typing. Even outside the commercial sphere, leaders of such complicated projects are famous, such as Linus Torvalds.
- lupusreal 2y agoThe cultures that didn't build pyramids were probably more intelligently managed, at least generally. The pyramids had no practical value, at best they were a jobs program to keep workers busy between growing seasons, but there are much better projects to work on if keeping busy is the goal (for instance, build roads, canals, irrigation trenches, etc.)
- inglor_cz 2y agoIt is not as if Ancient Egypt didn't build complicated irrigation systems too. There is survivorship bias embedded in your reply. Pyramids are extremely durable, so we can still see them and judge them. Cultures that didn't build them could well spend their money and effort on some other status symbols, which were more transient. Like huge events (balls etc.) held for the royalty.
- Andrew_nenakhov 2y agoPyramids had a lot of value. Ancient people were superstitious to the highest degree, and knew that victory always goes to whoever is favoured by the Gods. So, seeing these immense structures, Egypt's enemies knew that any raid on Egypt would be futile, as Egyptian gods would surely help their faithful followers who made them such magnificent gift.