Yup… Work your ass off guys, so we can fire you sooner! Great deal.
What if they just work 30 hour weeks for twice as many weeks?
More like 10-20% more weeks. It turns out people get less productive the more hours they work.
lol no way AGI is within reach. He is just trying to hype investors. Bet he has a scheduled stock sale soon.
Or if you hire more personnel. Overtime work is more expensive anyway.
Btw, the overwhelmingly positive field study in the UK over the 4-day week…
no no, he means free overtime. Like a reverse “20% policy”
So this is how you use AI to get these promised productivity gains.
His balls are within reach for stress relief.
When exactly was this pivotal moment when Google became a cult not a company ?
It was always kind of cult-y, but things seemed to really go downhill around the time they got dominance in the browser market to pair with their search dominance.
1998
We can make the AI slave, we just need the humans to be more slave-like to do it.
Then we can enslave humanity with the AI slave
Well that’s the neat thing, the owners of the AI won’t need humanity. They will exterminate us using the AI and sit smugly on their thrones of skulls until they expire or kill each other. Then I guess AI can just do its own thing in our ruins.
Just for information: We know, from multiple studies, that working more than 40 hours a week for longer periods of time is extremly unhealthy for you. A week has 24*7 = 168 hours and you should sleep 8 hours. That are 56 hours and if you’re working 60 hours, that leaves you with 52 hours or 7,5 hours per day for stuff like “commuting to work”, “buying groceries”, “brushing your teeth” , “family”, “friends”, “sport” or “this important appointment at the dentist”.
And that 7,5 hours are without a weekend. This will kill you. You might be younger and feel strong, but this will kill you.
Not to mention that it doesn’t yield higher output. So it’s stupid on every level.
7,5h per day is an absolute maximum for a standard workday. Crunches are sometimes fine if there’s a good reason, but they probably need to be followed by extended rest.
Yeah, that is also a factor. You can’t expect good work from somebody who has been working for 60 hours for years without having a vacation.
And if you want to have two weekends, 60 hours in 5 days is 12 hours of work a day, minus 8 hours for sleep you get 4 hours, minus ~2 hours commute you get 2 hours, and the rest is basic cooking and eating. This leaves 0 hours for anything else, including rest or even any other duties. This will absolutely kill you in the long run.
I remember hearing about somewhere - alphabet or meta or something like that - that basically provided adult crèche facilities for the employees. Way beyond just food - On-site nap rooms. Washing machines. Showers. The works. All to enable just a super unhealthy attitude towards work. Thinking about how much that must’ve affected anyone going there straight after uni when they should have been leaning how to look after themselves makes me shudder with cringe
The plantations are quite comfortable these days…
Dude who’s done nothing of importance since bouncing off google throwing words like that 😄
Just a few more hours bro.
If it’s within reach of a 60 hour week then it’s within reach of a 30 hour week.
This LLM copycat bullshit is never going to be it though. It’s not thinking, it’s looking up the answers at the back of the book.
Yup, hire 20-30% more people and have them work 30 hours. That’s fewer total hours worked, but they’re higher quality hours, so you should get more from less.
“Man who works 10 hours per year tells underlings to work 60 hours per week.”
wtf? why is everyone turning techbro all of a sudden even those who are supposed to be more knowledgeable on such stuff. Oh right because there is a bubble to sustain.
I highly recommend Kara Swisher’s recent book “Burn Book” for insights into the Tech lads like Brin, etc, as she’s known most of them since the 90s.
Really helps contextualize the crazy cocktail of engineering/commercial power with general naivety a lot of these guys have going.
