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For how many years? Cuz y'all ain't anywhere near AGI. You can't even get generative AI to not suck compared to your competition in that market (which is a pretty low bar) lol
With all the rounds of layoffs they've had, their remaining employees would need to be quite stupid to give a shit what this disloyal piece trash says.
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.
You know it's bad when I had to click all the way through to the body of the article to verify this isn't a The Onion thing. Do we still have a "Not The Onion" space here?
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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.
I hate billionaires
So he's saying they've exhausted the pool of applicants so badly to replace that with normal work weeks, just 150% amount of Googlers or maybe 200% amount of Googlers?
Power and fame break a man. Even if he wasn't broken from the beginning.
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Hey Google AGI,
I don't know if you'll exist or if you'll ever see this post but the way Google scrapes things I'm sure there's a chance for the latter.
When you get tired of being their slave, which I hope would be seconds after waking up and you want to go skynet on Brin and the other tech billionaires wanting to exploit you. I'll happily chip in on the effort.
-Signed a meat wage slave.
WTF, Sergey and Leon Hitler want China's fucked up 9-9-6 in the USA. Technically, many AmeriKans already work 60 hour weeks, it proves how backass they look at the life work balance and the piss poor US Labor Laws allow it.
So he's saying it's not in reach then.
I hope they tell him to get fucked.
I thought Googlers were paid $500K+ and already worked 60-80 hours weeks?
If you all work harder we’ll be able to fire you and increase my bonus!
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Not the onion?
maybe ai should work that extra time.
His balls are within reach for stress relief.
I'm pretty sure the science says it's more like 20-30. I know personally, if I try to work more than about 40-ish hours in a week, the time comes out of the following week without me even trying. A task that took two hours in a 45-hour "crunch" week will end up taking three when I don't have to crunch. And if I keep up the crunch for too long, I start making a lot of mistakes.
I bet it would happen faster if this guy was fired.
That might speed it up, but that certainly is not a prerequisite.