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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

Or if you hire more personnel. Overtime work is more expensive anyway.

Btw, the overwhelmingly positive field study in the UK over the 4-day week...

[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 45 minutes ago

When exactly was this pivotal moment when Google became a cult not a company ?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We can make the AI slave, we just need the humans to be more slave-like to do it.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Then we can enslave humanity with the AI slave

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 points 1 hour ago

Well that's the neat thing, the owners of the AI won't need humanity. They will exterminate us using the AI and sit smugly on their thrones of skulls until they expire or kill each other. Then I guess AI can just do its own thing in our ruins.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago

Dude who's done nothing of importance since bouncing off google throwing words like that 😄

[–] Obelix@feddit.org 26 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Just for information: We know, from multiple studies, that working more than 40 hours a week for longer periods of time is extremly unhealthy for you. A week has 24*7 = 168 hours and you should sleep 8 hours. That are 56 hours and if you're working 60 hours, that leaves you with 52 hours or 7,5 hours per day for stuff like "commuting to work", "buying groceries", "brushing your teeth" , "family", "friends", "sport" or "this important appointment at the dentist".

And that 7,5 hours are without a weekend. This will kill you. You might be younger and feel strong, but this will kill you.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Not to mention that it doesn't yield higher output. So it's stupid on every level.

7,5h per day is an absolute maximum for a standard workday. Crunches are sometimes fine if there's a good reason, but they probably need to be followed by extended rest.

[–] Obelix@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, that is also a factor. You can't expect good work from somebody who has been working for 60 hours for years without having a vacation.

[–] Allero 1 points 1 hour ago

And if you want to have two weekends, 60 hours in 5 days is 12 hours of work a day, minus 8 hours for sleep you get 4 hours, minus ~2 hours commute you get 2 hours, and the rest is basic cooking and eating. This leaves 0 hours for anything else, including rest or even any other duties. This will absolutely kill you in the long run.

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

Just a few more hours bro.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 38 points 4 hours ago

If it's within reach of a 60 hour week then it's within reach of a 30 hour week.

This LLM copycat bullshit is never going to be it though. It's not thinking, it's looking up the answers at the back of the book.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

wtf? why is everyone turning techbro all of a sudden even those who are supposed to be more knowledgeable on such stuff. Oh right because there is a bubble to sustain.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 42 points 6 hours ago

"Man who works 10 hours per year tells underlings to work 60 hours per week."

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 hours ago

I highly recommend Kara Swisher's recent book "Burn Book" for insights into the Tech lads like Brin, etc, as she's known most of them since the 90s.

Really helps contextualize the crazy cocktail of engineering/commercial power with general naivety a lot of these guys have going.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

So he's saying they've exhausted the pool of applicants so badly to replace that with normal work weeks, just 150% amount of Googlers or maybe 200% amount of Googlers?

Power and fame break a man. Even if he wasn't broken from the beginning.

[–] Obelix@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago

He just wants more money and doesn't want to pay his workers. Google has been laying off thousands of people in the last year, so there really is no shortage of applicants. They could have just kept their current workforce, maybe?

[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 4 points 5 hours ago

What I learned working with Googlers. They were dorks. Big ass dorks. Who got used by women because for the first time in their lives. They were attractive to these women. So many broken marriages and divorces from cheating husbands. That they joked about at the Christmas party. It was an eye opening experience.

[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 41 points 7 hours ago

Thought this was an Onion article!

Hey plebs! I demand you work 50% more to develop AGI so that I can replace you with robots and fire all of you and make myself a double plus plutocrat! Also, I want to buy an island, small city, Bunker, Spaceship, And/Or something.

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago

Who gives a fuck what Sergey brin thinks

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Karoushi is the new cool trend. Everyone is doing it.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 hours ago (12 children)

AGI requires a few key components that no LLM is even close to.

First, it must be able to discern truth based on evidence, rather than guessing it. Can’t just throw more data at it, especially with the garbage being pumped out these days.

Second, it must ask questions in the pursuit of knowledge, especially when truth is ambiguous. Once that knowledge is found, it needs to improve itself, pruning outdated and erroneous information.

Third, it would need free will. And that’s the one it will never get, I hope. Free will is a necessary part of intelligent consciousness. I know there are some who argue it does not exist but they’re wrong.

[–] orb360@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago

The human mind isn't infinitely complex. Consciousness has to be a tractable problem imo. I watched Westworld so I'm something of an expert on the matter.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Specifically, the women who report to him that he's attracted to need to spend 60 hours a week dating him.

Thanks for the input, Big Head.

[–] jinarched@lemm.ee 18 points 8 hours ago

I don't believe a single word of this bullshit.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 50 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He can fuck all the way off.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago
[–] art@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I guess we don't need it then.

[–] tal 8 points 7 hours ago

That might speed it up, but that certainly is not a prerequisite.

[–] LodeMike 38 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Or just hire 50% more engineers? Or wait 50% longer?

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 17 points 9 hours ago

with "hire more" you do run up against the "9 women can have a baby in 1 month" limit, but in this case it's likely to help.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 hours ago

I bet it would happen faster if this guy was fired.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They warn us about AGI while simultaneously attempting to sell it to us.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Black PR is PR too, it's like warnings about weapons of the future and combat robots and antiutopia for many people worked as an ad, and they want that exact future.

I think it's the same with AGI. People think Skynet is cool and want Skynet, because they think it's the future.

Except it's a bit less, like real fascism doesn't look similar to Warhammer, just to a criminal district ruled by a gang, scaled for a country.

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