The Cult of Microsoft
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Soundtrack: EL-P - Flyentology At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company decision-making in everything from how products are sold, to how your on-the-job performance is judged. I am

Spooky stuff that helps explain a lot of the dysfunction flowing out from Microsoft.

  • msage@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It seems that happens to management at every company, at various strength. I swear there must be a source for all this shit, like Forbes or something.

    A side note:

    "… It’s all hallucination.”

    prone to hallucination.

    No, just no.

    Everything generative AI produces is a hallucination.

    Some may correlate with reality, but it is still a hallucination.

    LLMentalist

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      I don’t like how people use “hallucinations” to refer to the output of neural networks, but you know what, it is all hallucination. It’s hallucination on our part, looking at arbitrary sequences of tokens and seeing meaningful text. It’s pareidolia, and it’s powerful.

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I think he’s underestimating the intentionality at play here. The dynamic he’s describing (and describing very well!) has been evident since the first chatbot, ELIZA. I don’t believe that Saltman and friends don’t know about this dynamic, and I’ll give them benefit of the doubt that they didn’t think we had AGI in the 80s with basic text templates.