They benevolently feed the dead to the living

What the humans thought they knew came from the Zion archives mostly. And guess where the Zion archives came from…

> As if some people are born as cost centers, like it’s the genetic programming for pupillary distance.

I literally said the opposite of it. The classification is descriptive, and frequently reevaluated. It'd not a property of a person, but a function of where they currently are in the org chart.

> If you want to be a profit center, be one.

Sure.

> When the body is in danger of dying should it stop healing the fingernails or the brain?

Nothing is dying, though. The body that is the org needs both kinds of centers to function. Like any other system that resists entropy, it has parts that are sacrificed so other parts are preserved.

That's true, let's think about it.

The brain is the most obvious cost center, consuming nutrients without doing anything to directly provide them. Legs move us towards food, but also away from it, so they're a wash. Eyes and ears are redundant with nose, in these lean times. Hands are essential to pick up food that's in a container we can't fit our face in. Mouth too. Digestive tract, on the other hand, is always complaining for more food and never generating any itself, so it has to go.

Once we've fired everyone but the C-suite, marketing, and accounts receivable, we'll have the most efficient, profit-center only company in existence!

> If you want to be a profit center, be one.

Thanks, I'm cured.

Ah, so this is why many companies end up full of sociopaths who contribute nothing to the actual revenue of the company: they all managed to weasel themselves into the “profit centers” while the chumps doing actual work that keeps the lights on remain in the “cost centers”.

Why not just use AI to say 'please' and 'thank you'?

I think because you get the disjointed Idiocracy Carl's Junior interaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d7SaO0JAHk

As it is when I go to some fast food places they greet you in one voice (possibly a central ordering system) and you get a second voice that interrupts (local people I suspect) and takes over. It's weird.

This is a better idea. Put the headset on a delay so AI can inject the requisite politeness. Construction workers don’t have to turn screws by hand so why shouldn’t service workers have a tool that helps them give great customer service?

As a customer, I'd find that actively offensive.

Those pre-ordering recordings asking if I'm using an app are already horrible enough as it is. Offloading basic human politeness to machines would be even worse.

If someone is being forced by an AI to be polite to you, is it really still basic human politeness? Or is it some weird, different, corporate-hellscape-mediated thing

> If someone is being forced by an AI to be polite to you, is it really still basic human politeness?

No. That does strip the meaning out of it. I also object to Burger King's proposal.

But at least it's still coming from an actual person, even if they're forced to do it. That may not be much, but it's still better.

Less offensive than a completely meaningless forced "please" and "thank you" coming from an employee who only does it because if they don't they are punished.

Slightly more offensive to me. Not a lot more offensive, though, that's true.

I find making employees say please and thank you substantially more offensive.

As opposed to the satisfaction of watching a minimum wage worker being zapped by an AI-powered collar and mumbling "Th-tha nk you" as a result.

Yeah, that'd definitely be The Truly Sincere Experience™.

If the food at BK doesn't offend you, why would this?

> As a customer, I'd find that actively offensive

You'd have already been screened out by "You rule".

Why not just have an AI to find that offensive, instead of you.

Because the headset doesn't have a loudspeaker mode.

But V2 will! The "AI" will handle the whole customer interaction, with the human doing nothing but carrying it around on his head.

Slightly less-worse take than "isn't it ultimately better if the employees are more polite?"

Best to skip the priest and feed context directly

The thing is the asians are dressed / made up in a confusing way. Koreans don't on the street don't typically look like that, whereas say a Japanese person might.

It would be a better test if it were from the collarbone-up, no clothes or makeup.

I've found Google (at least in AI Studio) are the only provider NOT to nerf their models after a few weeks

I don't use AI studio for my work. I used Antigravity/Gemini CLI and 3 pro was great for few weeks and now it's worse than 3 flash or any smaller model from competitor which are rated lower on benchmarks

IME, they definitely nerf models. gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 through AI Studio was amazing at release and steadily degraded. The quality started tanking around the time they hid CoT.

> "I got a comment deleted for using the name of the beloved actor who was Bert in Mary Poppins."

I've never figured out how to type a sentence into the Safari search without.every.word.ending.up.like.this

Hysterical E2EE