Meta Reassigns 7k Employees to Focus on A.I (nytimes.com)

This is the way. Hopefully they learned from IKEA which instead of firing 8,500 support agents retrained them into interior designers.

Meta will keep oscillating. Its an example of too much cash chasing too few ideas. Tomorrow Zuck will say solving quantum field equations are the future, and since they wont find more than 8 people on the planet with the skills, execs will start running around furiously producing all kinds of fake activty to validate the "vision". When the system turns into a money printer the 3 inch chimp brain looses all grounding. Humility is the first trait that evaporates. The Attention Economy has zero mechanisms of humility generation. Its a runaway halucination engine. And Meta will keep oscillating till that is fixed.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161427

"your job is to build the machine that will fire you"

Maybe they will fix the AI that banned me from running facebook / instagram ads after running them for 8 days.

My ability to run ads, and to work for about half the places trying to hire me to run ads, was perma banned by an AI with this message:

- "Our technology found your ad account doesn’t follow our Advertising Policies. As a result, our technology took action."

Or maybe people knowing of the layoffs set it up this way. Hmm. That would hit their bottom line many times over.

Either way, being struck down in the crossfire is terrible.

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