You know shit only flows downhill right?

Most industries management fails upward. Definitely true in Pharma.

There are CEOs with a 20 year string of development failures, but they bring "vast experience".

It depends, though.

There are cases where parts of a struggling company is worth less than the sum of its parts. At that point, the fiscally prudent option is to sell it off, either in one piece or multiple pieces. There are plenty of cases in American corporate history where the best option is to cut losses and leave a market.

That being said, I'm surprised that private equity is still allowed to be a thing given the massive disparity shown in how a lot of financial disparity in how a lot of private equity companies run their companies against their fiduciary responsibilities to their companies' stockholders and bondholders.

That became easier with phones huh.

I don't know, the smallest computer I have in operation is the sketchiest one.

Yup!

"I'm sorry but your contact is terminated because our management software designated your position as redundant and unnecessary. It wasn't our decision to let you go, but it was our decision to begin using that software and it was our decision to program it to try to fire as many employees as possible, but it's not our decision and therefore we can't be held responsible. Goodbye."

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You know "accountability", it's when an executive fucks up and gets to retire early with a multimillion dollar golden parachute.

Back when tech is still dominated by hippies and not fascists.

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISIONs

It's not my fault

I was just following orders

It's just company policy

It's just a misstep in the algorithm

They can finally get rid of McKinsey and blame it on cheaper and faster trendy butthole logo of the month.

Well that’s the exact reason these people are so horny for AI.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

There are studies showing that LLM AI is competitive against human C suite managers. When issues like AI hallucinations are brought up, it turns out that human C suite managers also make shit up all the time.

One interesting thing they found was that AI doesn't do as well if there is a shock to the economic system like Covid.

are are rarely held accountable.

Agreed except you better not touch my extremely meager retirement account for some shit the CEO did. I will go full uno bomber.

It's just a little war crimes, it's ok it's ok.

Midrange might, but mainframe users pay ongoing amounts to IBM for however much compute they use for the life of the machine

That's alright, so far they haven't even come close

Try to stop me.

Cylons hate this little trick.

One of many reasons why I love BSG. As a retro-computing enthusiast, the idea that antique systems are naturally impervious to conventional digital attacks, just felt so validating.

Sure, our navigation system is based on a Commodore-64, but good luck getting it to divulge mission-critical information over bluetooth. Or any information for that matter.

So when is Musk getting held accountable for making a literal US funded Nazi waifu bot

Imagine however, that a machine objectively makes the better decisions than any person.

You can't know if a decision is good or bad without a person to evaluate it. The situation you're describing isn't possible.

the people who deploy a machine [...] should be accountable for those actions.

How is this meaningfully different from just having them make the decisions in the first place? Are they too stupid?

Geneva convention can only be applied on the nations who are coincidentally, not going around breaking them willy-nilly.

Sounds like something a manager would say. Some of us produce, create value through our labor, while some sit their fat asses at a desk and only grace the production floor to make everybody's day just a little more difficult. So you just get on back up there to the big house and let us handle things out here where you can't hack it.

Everyone manages something.

Most workers manage something and create value. Managers are only managing, remove them and nothing changes - usually things get more optimized, actually.

This is too facile. First, in terms of capability maturity, management is not the goal of a fully-realized line of industry. Instead, the end is optimization, a situation where everything is already repeatable, defined, and managed; in this situation, our goal is to increase, improve, and simplify our processes. In stark contrast, management happens prior to those goals; the goal of management is to predict, control, and normalize processes.

Second, management is the only portion of a business which is legible to the government. The purpose of management is to be taxable, accountable, and liable, not to handle the day-to-day labors of the business. The Iron Law insists that the business will divide all employees into the two camps of manager and non-manager based solely on whether they are employed in pursuit of this legibility.

Third, consider labor as prior to employment; after all, sometimes people do things of their own cognizance without any manager telling them what to do. So, everybody is actually a non-manager at first! It's only in the presence of businesses that we have management, and only in the presence of capitalism that we have owners. Consider that management inherits the same issues of top-down command-and-control hierarchy as ownership or landlording.

your logic is flawed.

employees can be held accountable for their actions.

I hope you are in a job that an LLM can't do.