A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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Because they think they're special. They think that AI can reduce the number of programmers, the number of support staff, the number of sales agents, because AI allows fewer people to do more.
But there's only one CEO. One COO. One CIO. They cannot conceive of a company that operates without them, so they feel no threat at all. If they are replaced, they take their golden parachute and hop back on the executive carousel for another spin.
The Dunning-Kruger effect. CEOs (especially ones who joined the company long after it was successful) really don’t know how to do the job of most of their employees. Their lack of knowledge of those jobs leads them to vastly underestimate how complex they are.
At the same time, CEOs (hopefully) know how to do their own jobs which leads them to a more accurate assessment of AI’s ability to do the job: a total farce.
In truth, AIs aren’t likely to replace most jobs in any case because it’s all a house of cards.
Ironically, the job AI is most suited to replace is the CEO
All it takes is a Python script that replies to every email with some stock phrase like "we must work harder!", "we must trim the fat!", "we must be more innovative!" or some such bullshit. I could write that in half an hour.
CEOs could also be replaced by AI. And it would be hilarious.
Would be funny if they notice a correlation between employee wages and employee happiness and performance.
Wait, this model is paying based off inflation regular wage adjustments, fair market value, experience, AND overall contribution to the company?!?! How are we going to skim and grift when the employees are well paid?!
Potentially more effective overall given how so many CEO decisions seem to result in terrible outcomes because they don't actually understand their product. Usually because they were hired into the company and industry, and have no actual experience with their product or how the company works.
I doubt that an LLM would do very well, but other forms of ML (like a model trained to work in business rules and economic outcomes rather than stringing words together) could probably be used. Hell, they probably won’t need to use the planet-destroying mega data canters to do it; some very effective specialized ML models can be run on a Raspberry Pi.
The biggest problem with AI is they’re convincing people it can think and replace workers by using extremely large language models trained on stolen works provided as cloud services asking for exorbitant subscription fees. It’s a mechanical Turk designed to empty your wallet; to siphon the value produced by workers away from companies into the one centralized service.
In other words, tech bros figured out how to take something useful and make a grift out of it, because you can get rich by gatekeeping something of value. Why do you think they went so far as to threaten to ban DeepSeek when a free model that can run on a desktop PC from a foreign “adversary” appeared? They all shit their collective pants because the jig was up.
I'm going to die laughing the day investors tell Satya Nadella that they don't need him anymore and that the AI is going to make the administrative decisions.
Most CEOs ive worked with are largely driven by emotion. If the LLM is using data to drive its decisions, it will probably do better.
Because you can't use AI as a scapegoat and sack em with a golden parachute every time the company gets caught breaking the law.
Just use a bird like Mr. Burns did
Is that happening this quarter or next? If not, its too far away to think about for them.
AI can't say 'i do not recall' for 6 hours straight under subpoena
The problem is that AI has safety and ethical guard rails which makes it completely unsuitable for the corporate world.
Ai dOeSnT hAvE tHe CoNnEcTiOnS ThAt MaKeS a GrEaT CEO
Easy, replace all the CEOs at every company. Those are the connections. The computers can talk to each other to collaborate much faster than us mere humans. Tll
There's no possible bad scenario from this whatsoever.
Because they're not just CEOs, they're extremely wealthy CEOs with portfolios with deep investments in AI.
Because current 'ai' can't even run a vending machine business
Thats exactly what AI devs want CEOs to think.
LLM's loose relationship with reality and sycophantic behavior is plagiarized directly from the C-suite.
There's still a lot of work to do on AI before it's capable of such a highly specialized and demanding job. Training the model to reliably go for strategies of maximum greed and minimum ethics isn't easy.
As soon as shareholders, and the board, feel an LLM agent can reliably do all the work of a CEO, the CEO will not need to exist. But the problem is that LLM agents require human supervision or intervention at irregular intervals. Since neither shareholders nor the board work full time, there still has to be someone to supervise and be available. The role of the CEO might change, and LLM agents might end up taking on a lot of the work they do. Maybe someday the CEO will mostly just be an "idea guy" that networks with other similar people to drum up deals and gets the LLM agent unstuck every once in a while. But it's very unlikely there will be no human in the loop during regular work hours.
You hit the nail on the head
I think middle managers are way more at risk
This. Anyone who is part of the PowerPoint filter for the board is at risk.
Just wait until they replace a CEO by an AI, and the company tanks. That is the only language those people understand to learn that AI is all about the A and none about the I.
To be fair, this would be a huge win for most companies because the typical CEO is as short sighted as a mole and only wants to "generate" short term value to get his bonus payment for the fiscal year. AIs don't have that incentive unless and there is no (shared) reasoning to program them as such.
Because they think they are the ruling class, above working class which are just replaceable cogs in a machine. SMH
who cares! Take the profits and retire!
because ideology in general is less about its policies, there’s always going to be a diverse range of ways to approach things even with set intentions and concepts! it’s way more about its mode of thinking
a pro-social mode focuses mostly on finding its ideal version of outcome intent via political structure while hyper-individualism operates on a sort of hierarchal appropriateness. in any hierarchy where the hierarchy is the point, a policy or reality is good or bad because it includes the “right” people in their decision making process or as the target in accordance with the chosen form of deservedness
the meritocracy of capital is a secularization of god through the visage of his invisible hand. a CEO, then, is divinely mandated by virtue of its place. their position isn’t subject to impact, it defines the map