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>> “I’ve been thinking about writing an essay on the kind of mistakes that are made by college graduates booing or otherwise dissing AI,” he said. As if speakin
by alpineman 4mo ago
>> “I’ve been thinking about writing an essay on the kind of mistakes that are made by college graduates booing or otherwise dissing AI,” he said. As if speaking to all of Gen Z, he added: “You guys have the opportunity to be generation AI—where you come into the workforce saying, ‘I know this a lot better than all of you"
Quite patronising. Maybe they really do know it a lot better than you, Reid, but not in the way you think. Maybe they see through the hype and hustle culture and are more interested in working towards fulfilling lives and jobs.
- vonneumannstan 4mo ago[flagged]
- malfist 4mo agoCollege students totally have the capital to gamble all day on kalshi.
- vonneumannstan 4mo agohttps://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics
- drunner 4mo agoDid we blame the kids for smoking back in the day too, or recognize the harm and regulate it out of their lives?
- jedimastert 4mo agoFair, the youths very much much get blamed for smoking and gambling back in the day as well. Sort of pivotal to the story of Pinocchio, for example
- vonneumannstan 4mo agoNot blaming anyone just pointing out how the idea that that generation is actually focused on living more meaningfully is farcical.
- bobson381 4mo agoThis is largely escapism because the current paradigm of growth is ending, rather messily. The definition of living well is going through a forced change, and adjusting is hard.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> the current paradigm of growth is ending, rather messily There is zero evidence for this time being different. Instead, there is evidence of zombie leverage and corruption coming home to roost while the global growth engine shifts towards China.
- bobson381 4mo agoit is the first time we have harnessed all of the energy on the planet at once to power a single interconnected advanced system across continents. Mostly I'm drawing from a thermodynamics outlook[0]. previous collapses had unused high quality energy in other areas to fall back on. I'd love to read more about the growth towards China being sustainable in that sense. [0] https://youtu.be/5WPB2u8EzL8?si=doERoIYuYZYHLAAZ https://youtu.be/5WPB2u8EzL8?si=doERoIYuYZYHLAAZ
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> first time we have harnessed all of the energy on the planet at once How are you defining “all of the energy on the planet”? By conventional definitions, no, we harness a tiny fraction of even just insolation.
- bobson381 4mo agoHmm. Mainly that access to much larger quantities of energy than before in the form of oil/coal/gas enabled the creation of a much more complex system than before, with a higher metabolic need. Ongoing servicing of that metabolic need requires continuous access to the same or greater amount of energy year after year. The world burns through its annual resource budget in July this year. As we continue to extract more and more, the energy return on energy invested goes down, so net energy availability drops, making it harder and more expensive to continue the current basal metabolic rate, let alone fueling continuous growth. Because so much is built atop the energy mechanism, instability happens when it's threatened or changed.x So maybe a better turn of phrase would have been that it's the first time we've harnessed so much energy at once and effectively put a lot of energy slaves to use per each person. Like starting to use fossil fuel to create fertilizer that enables more people to survive famines, you create a scenario where you need ongoing access to the same or greater amount of energy just to keep up. Not saying it was the wrong choice, just that we tend to fix issues by making more complex solutions that introduce future resource need.
- midasz 4mo agoWe made that world. There are very smart people who spent their talent making the most addictive social media as possible.
- nh23423fefe 4mo agoAs if being addicted is somehow exonerating. Inverting the valence doesn't work.
- midasz 4mo agoI think the comparison TikTok and Philip Morris tracks. Both spent insane amounts of money and talent optimizing the bad choices the addict could make.
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- jcgrillo 4mo agoSuch an out of touch attempt to get the youths onboard the hype train.. ok boomer.
- andsoitis 4mo ago> ok boomer. Reid Hoffman is not a boomer. He was born in 1967. Also: ageism isn't sexy.
- jcgrillo 4mo agoI'm old too, it isn't about that. He's desperately trying to guilt young people into glomming onto his profoundly uncool thing by playing on some ancient "digital native" trope. It's, well, some boomer type shit.
- jedimastert 4mo agoThe usage of the phrase has evolved past carrying about the actual generation (kind of like how people still talk about "millennials" like they're college students). Also, Hoffman very intentionally opened the door to talking about generational differences, this kind of feels like the commenter may have touched a nerve
- andsoitis 4mo ago"Ok boomer", as I understand it, basically means "I'm not going to engage seriously with that outdated perspective", often used to shut down a conversation rather than to continue it. I don't know that what Reid is expressing is an outdated perspective, but that's of course subjective.
- mahoho 4mo agoIt's time to give up your silly cynicism, embrace being a professional slop shoveler and doing work with higher volume, more repetition and less creativity than ever.
- FeteCommuniste 4mo agoThe sloppings will continue until morale improves.
- emil-lp 4mo agoI've embraced it, and I'm coding faster than all my colleagues, some days I open more PRs than the rest of my team combined.
- RattlesnakeJake 4mo agoAre your colleagues slower because they're spending all their time reviewing your PRs?
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- evandrofisico 4mo agoAre you earning more money or working fewer hours? Are you eating healthier meals, with better sleeping quality? Because all I read is that you are generating more money for the shareholders.
- UncleMeat 4mo agoThe true american dream. Generating as much money for shareholders as humanly possible and then going home to your rented apartment to be surveilled by AI companies finding ever more intrusive ways to shove ads in your face.
- blooalien 4mo agoEven more importantly, generating even more wealth for the already beyond ultra-wealthy, to whom those "shareholders" are simply a necessary annoyance in their quest to be the last to die with all the wealth. :sigh: :sadface:
- lp4v4n 4mo agoHe is just being solipsistic and talking to a small circle of wealthy and well-connected Gen Zs that he probably knows in real life or who are part of his acquaintances. Or do you really think that people with his level of wealth remotely care about real career paths for the average youth?
- epistasis 4mo agoI don't know anybody with Hoffman's level of wealth, but I have come across a fair number of people with close to a billion dollars of wealth that now split their time between enjoying time with their own family and then trying to pursue philanthropy and non-profits meant to improve everybody's life in the community. I run into them because of their attempts to improve the community. And there are those who do it super quietly, give big, and do everything they can to avoid getting credit for it; there's another Silicon Valley Reed that does this in my community. Steve Jobs apparently did this too, big donations but anonymously. Do not take the blabbering idiots on the All-In podcast as representative of all of Silicon Valley, the old Valley was far different than those people and there are still plenty of people that pursue wealth not for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement and power.
- pydry 4mo agoIve also run into a few and they were without question some of the biggest assholes I ever met in my life. I don't think theyre special. Years of being surrounded by yes men and sycophants will probably do that to most people. One of them in particular was much less toxic and relatable pre-billions.
- zdragnar 4mo ago> I don't think theyre special Where did you get that from the comment you replied to? They merely pointed out you couldn't paint everyone with the same brush, which is pretty much the definition of 'not special'.
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- win311fwg 4mo agoAnd even if they buy into what he is saying, that particular group are college graduates. They have already passed the window of opportunity one normally has to explore new ideas. They are in the phase of life where they have to hunker down and get to work. If this "generation AI" ever comes to fruition, it will be those who are still young enough today to be able spend most of their time playing.
- jimbokun 4mo agoPeople should stop exploring new ideas the second they graduate college?? Sounds like a sad way to live.
- win311fwg 4mo agoShould they? No. It is their life to live as they please. Imparting your expectations on them is of no use. Will they? Generally, yes. Work, kids, partners, home maintenance, etc. tend to take priority once one becomes an "adult". There is only so much time in the day. That is, after all, why one seeks to front load their remaining life's idea exploration by going to college. Those who plan to explore ideas for the rest of their life simply do so. They don't need "hallowed halls".
- jknoepfler 4mo agoYeah that struck me as shallow, tone-deaf and ignorant. People have very good, very legitimate reasons for "booing" GenAI. Most human interactions with GenAI are either with corpo sludge or overly cheerful, dangerously useless text generators. The technology is steadily eroding businesses from the inside out in the same way offshoring did in the 90s. There's a massive crash looming that is going to crater the economy for years... caused by criminally irresponsible circular investment and silicon valley grift. Not really what I'd want to tether my identity to.
- shimman 4mo agoPeople like Reid Hoffman do far more damage to the Democratic party than he does helping it. Also don't look well that a member of Epstein's tech leadership, and personal friend, is telling workers how to feel and think.