Paul Cantrell2d ago

RE: https://discuss.systems/@dev/116807460725864716

The whole presentation is worth the click-through:

1. Honestly, the metaphorically mangled goose slides in the post make more sense than a lot of the rest of the presentation — which is •really• saying something.

2. That deck is a magnificent example of why I don't like sharing slides as a means of sharing the content of a talk.

3. If we •do• attempt to infer the content from the presentation's sloptastic slides alone, it’s a remarkable window into the investor thinking that’s driving the AI bubble: “Exponential money is hiding just around the corner! Get in on the ground floor! Buy now! Buy now and rocket to infinity and beyond!!”

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Investors with AI FOMO about other investors with AI FOMO about CEOs with AI FOMO about other AI CEOs with AI FOMO they contracted from their investors
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Re this post:

Back in 2012, the Minnesota Orchestra musicians went on strike over a semi-secretive plan from the board to remake the orchestra (one of the best in the world) by slashing player salaries, gutting creative direction, and turning them into a sort of pop-lite-classical easy listening machine of some kind — details very fuzzy, rationale even fuzzier.

During the dispute, a slide deck of their shadowy plan leaked. It was somewhat garbled and confusing, and missing all the key details and analysis that everyone was dying for. “What are you hiding??” the public cried, “Show us the full plan!!” “What are you talking about? We did!” “No, not just the presentation! The actual plan!”

A confused period followed during which it became clear that the slide deck •was• the full plan.

This little gaggle of the Brightest Minds of Business moonlighting on a nonprofit board thought that gutting a local institution required so little thought that when people saw the full analysis, they assumed the board must be hiding something.

https://chaosfem.tw/@theogrin/116808542563847455

Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 (@[email protected])

@[email protected] I have no clue who put this slideshow on a public-facing folder, but I really hope Softbank try to bury this. Please, please let them try. This needs so much more of the public eye. I want the public to see just what complete assholes are in charge of these big companies. (also softbank some philosophers would claim that the purpose of an egg is to eventually lay another egg but that's me being a pedant)

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@inthehands

It's like Apocalypse Now:

"Do you find my methods unsound?"

"I don't see any method at all, sir..."

Jun 25 at 4:14amWeb