They know what they are doing. Their goals just don't align with the rest of humanity.

The mistake we make is in assuming that government choices are born of incompetence... The actions of empire are not incompetent. They are not intended to serve you or the citizens, but to serve material interests, the plunder of land, natural resources, markets, and cheap labor".

-Michael Parenti

RIP to the GOAT

Edit: He talks about it in the lecture starting around 15:35. Though the quote above is from his book "against empire"

https://youtu.be/s5oPFAfdrkU?t=935

Well back then we thought everyone in charge was evil. Back then we had Krutschev, Nixon etc. Always nuclear war looming. And Reagan with this trickle downs, the Bush wars over made-up WMDs etc.

I don't think there was ever really a positive period. Maybe the 90s which was kinda the high point. Economics were good, America and NATO was the undisputed world power, nobody took global warming seriously yet and the internet was promising a great future.

Then after 2000 we had the dot com crash, 9/11, the resulting wars, Russia becoming an enemy again, the financial world crisis, the rise of the internet as a surveillance tool, global warming, the pandemic, exploding house prices everywhere.

Really pretty much exactly after the change of the century everything turned to shit.

No that was a long time ago for some of us it's always been like this you were just insulated by privilege

Thanks for notifying, I hate to know it's true (no insult intended)

Nope.

I'm legitimately having a blast right now, 100% affirmed by reality, which I spent the last roughly 15 years of trying to tell people, very labriously, with very detailed reasoning, why what is now obvious was then and basically always has been the case.

Your discomfort is my schadenfreude.

I'm sure that back in the day there were adults in charge of the big companies. I know that where I work management used to listen to tech areas for tech stuff. Now they just trust whatever the Microsoft agent tells them

It almost makes me think a human worker intentionally made these slides. LLMs don't really have the creativity to make typos, which is how I can sometimes catch LLM comments on here. Also "SharePhont" is pretty funny

Unless they used an image generator to make the slides, which would be extra stupid

edit: turns out it WAS the extra stupid

It's the Combigent Directive

about their MDASH copilot model

that's satire, right?

Not a single one of those words is cromulent, I swear on my aunt's borschtum.

Data flow

I solemnly swear to god, I posted this exact same thing before I saw your post lol

A noble spirit combiggens the smallest man.

Combigent (adj.)

Definition: A word that seems like a real word but actually isn't

It also looks completely plausible for a word. I can see why an AI trained to make plausible-looking images generated it.

Now I'm curious to see what other perfectly English-looking words it comes up with

I guess it'll be nice to have a spare word lying around for when a wordless meaning emerges

A classy male driver of a combine?

Skilled with the use of a comb

Yeah those are very weird errors. Not like AI hallucinations. But more like OCR errors.

I wonder if they imported another PowerPoint and then the AI made images out of it to process it. That would be a very inefficient way to do it.

That sounds like human errors.

Of course it costs more, classic search engines lack the combigency and veritability Copilot provides.

Then they train their troubleshooting clanker on said unusuable documentation so it's unhelpful but it won't let you talk to a human who might actually be able to assist you.

DOS 5 docko was fine. I wonder* when they went wrong

*I don't really

It sounds like something that would ease the combining of ingredients/components. Like an emulsifier but more general. "An emulsifier is a combigent for oil and water"

Your mom is combigent.

Nah, that's a 'nadscrag'