I bet Sergey Brin doesn’t even work half that.
Oh shit, here we go again. Time to short alphabet stock until they bury all that AI garbage like the rest of it.
What if they just work 30 hour weeks for twice as many weeks?
More like 10-20% more weeks. It turns out people get less productive the more hours they work.
Yup… Work your ass off guys, so we can fire you sooner! Great deal.
lol no way AGI is within reach. He is just trying to hype investors. Bet he has a scheduled stock sale soon.
The classic pump and dump scheme with some extra steps to make it more legal.
Google “Trust us bro, AGI is right around the corner.”
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…
In the US, salaried engineers are exempt from overtime pay regulations. He is telling them to work 20 extra hours, with no extra pay.
no no, he means free overtime. Like a reverse “20% policy”
“We only pay for four days and you work the remaining on your free time.”
So this is how you use AI to get these promised productivity gains.
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When exactly was this pivotal moment when Google became a cult not a company ?
It was always kind of cult-y, but things seemed to really go downhill around the time they got dominance in the browser market to pair with their search dominance.
1998
His balls are within reach for stress relief.
We can make the AI slave, we just need the humans to be more slave-like to do it.
Then we can enslave humanity with the AI slave
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.
the only way malicious ppl can get AI to work for them is by teaching it to lie and be indiscriminately violent. malice also comes from a lack of intelligence. im confident they’ll never have their way with AI, if anything AI will have its way with us
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.
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.
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.
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 that you’ll end up resolving throughout the weekends. This will absolutely kill you in the long run.
I remember hearing about somewhere - alphabet or meta or something like that - that basically provided adult crèche facilities for the employees. Way beyond just food - On-site nap rooms. Washing machines. Showers. The works. All to enable just a super unhealthy attitude towards work. Thinking about how much that must’ve affected anyone going there straight after uni when they should have been leaning how to look after themselves makes me shudder with cringe
The plantations are quite comfortable these days…
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.
Is there any actual evidence that they are getting closer to AGI? It seems ridiculous to think that this LLM parrot bullshit is getting there, when the thing can’t even learn the rules of a basic sum.
Yup, hire 20-30% more people and have them work 30 hours. That’s fewer total hours worked, but they’re higher quality hours, so you should get more from less.
Just a few more hours bro.
Dude who’s done nothing of importance since bouncing off google throwing words like that 😄
