The Overton window is again threatening satire?

while saying you have to be in the office because of the interaction

Nah, they want everybody to only use their robotaxi too.

layoffs happen all the time when the economy contracts

Yeah, USA economy is stagnating or shrinking and it’s just the AI bubble holding everything up.

Cue Sam Altman saying abundance every two sentences but never explaining how that would work.

That’s what they’ve been trying to do by coming up with the next new shiny thing to invest in. Remember Blockchain, NFT and the like.

Still, the layoffs are here, so even if the bubble gets its time extended it won’t help the situation for many.

Mostly people with very cheap employers. Like, we had to keep using the old computer mice with a ball, and regularly waste time cleaning out the lint, instead of just getting us optical mice.

Tales from the field:

One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting “WHAT DID YOU DO!!” The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they’re still standing in the door opening.

One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn’t found any outlet for his drill, and he didn’t want to run an extension cord, so plugged the drill one in the only outlet he found. It was the outlet marked by a different color because it was linked to the UPS, and that UPS went down hard when the drilling started, taking all the servers with it. That recovery took some time.

Like that time they asked Peter Thiel if he thinks the human race should survive, and there was this long pregnant pause.

AI works, we lose our jobs.

AI doesn’t work, bubble pops, we lose our jobs.

AI sorta kinda works, wages get depressed and things turn into a dystopian hellhole.

Not that much reason to be positive and he doesn’t know how to fix it.

Huang doesn’t have a solution for the very real risk of job displacement

That’s going to be used by teens for finding new ways to sit and show off their balancing skills until it inevitably breaks, gets vandalised because it’s already broken until it ends up surrounded by dumped household waste and rats. The budget for cleaning up is used up for making that monstrosity in the first place, so it remains there as a blight on the landscape.

And then you have Lock-picking Lawyer bypassing the smart lock in seconds.

I’ve lived long enough to go through multiple AI winters. This is just business failure as usual.

And they’ll probably shut down the AI servers in a few years for cost reduction making the whole thing a huge waste of money.

Lactose intolerant after Christmas dinners be like

What they refer to is for example women using accusations of inappropriate behavior to ruin reputations and promotion chances of men to get ahead.

One that also pops up is how divorce is used as a way to strip mine the wealth of men because “the system” will advantage women always.

That’s some talking points you usually see.