If I had a penny for every time I heard something like
"We're going to track increases in productivity that we gain by adopting GenAI"
1. So you're assuming it's an increase
2. Against what control group
3. With no acknowledgement of confounding variables or experiment design
4. Around the...famously open problem of measuring software engineering productivity?
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •"...is AI really going to do so fantastically that it's worth paying far more for the book value of these assets, far more for the projected future earnings — not the current earnings — far more for the projected future earnings of these stocks than people have ever asked in the past. So, that's plainly front and center the biggest issue."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
archive.ph/06X1W
AI is a flight of capital out of the fossil fuel industry & little to do with productivity
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1. AI iniatives are ways to artificially boost fossil fuel demand.
The market shrinks as solar, wind, etc gain ground, because they are far less expensive than fossil fuels.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
wired.com/story/heres-where-to…
politico.com/newsletters/power…
wired.com/story/trump-energy-i…
Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks
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2. AI initiatives have malign intent, by malign actors.
-- foreign election interference
-- disinformation campaigns
-- manipulating public sentiment
-- wage suppression, voter suppression
-- international state surveillance platforms
-- funded by anti-democracy billionaires, oil oligarchs, & petrostate despots
3. AI iniatives inflate consumer electricity rates ie consumers are subsidizing stock market frauds.
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
blog.ucs.org/maria-chavez/who-…
The elections were a referendum on energy—and Democrats won
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4. Fossil fuel interests are sitting on billions of dollars of oil assets facing steep devaluation in the future, as people stop buying their toxic products
The industry is cashing out its chips while it can. AI is a product without a genuine market; a scam in search of Greater Fools.
The industry seeks to restrict supply & keep prices high with sanctions on Russian & Venezuelan oil, EU/India tariff threats.
greencentralbanking.com/2022/0…
cepr.org/voxeu/columns/burn-no…
en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/In…
Investments in offshore engineering and construction are advancing, but oversupply and devaluation of the barrel pose risks to the growth of the global oil market - CPG Click Petróleo e Gás
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[ #CorporateDeathPenalties ]
rush.com/songs/territories/
The whole wide world
An endless universe
Yet we keep looking through
The eyeglass in reverse
Don’t feed the people
But we feed the machines
Can’t really feel
What international means
#WordsMindMusic #WhatIsOligarchy
Territories Lyrics — Rush.com
Rush.comInsecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •In other news, I'd like to share that I measured a 100% gain in productivity after turning the lights on for a team that was previously operating entirely in darkness.
Though I still need to do some research to understand the Hawthorne effect
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorn…
type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Jeff Grigg
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • • •"Corporate jargon translator fish" says that "We're going to track increases in productivity that we gain by adopting GenAI" means "We're going to 'gin up' some numbers to 'justify' our massive corporate spend in GenAI."
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 • •@Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 More lines of code mean more productivity, right?
Right??? 🫠
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