Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke
Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke  ·  3 months ago
#Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) – https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/hawtch-hawtch/#you-treasure-what-you-measure

This hawtch-hawtch metaphore by Dr. Seuss does indeed sumrises really well the shape 2.0. #neoliberalism and #surveillancecapitalism have taken over the last 20 years. As @pluralistic says it, we are becoming "reverse centaurs", that is, we are augmenting machines supposed to do our job better but can't. We are like Elon Musk's supposedly autonomous robots....humans disguised as robots.

Bedoya starts with a delightful analogy to The Hawtch-Hawtch, a mythical town from a Dr Seuss poem. The Hawtch-Hawtch economy is based on beekeeping, and the Hawtchers develop an overwhelming obsession with their bee's laziness, and determine to wring more work (and more honey) out of him. So they appoint a "bee-watcher." But the bee doesn't produce any more honey, which leads the Hawtchers to suspect their bee-watcher might be sleeping on the job, so they hire a bee-watcher-watcher. When that doesn't work, they hire a bee-watcher-watcher-watcher, and so on and on.
Bedoya starts with a delightful analogy to The Hawtch-Hawtch, a mythical town from a Dr Seuss poem. The Hawtch-Hawtch economy is based on beekeeping, and the Hawtchers develop an overwhelming obsession with their bee's laziness, and determine to wring more work (and more honey) out of him. So they appoint a "bee-watcher." But the bee doesn't produce any more honey, which leads the Hawtchers to suspect their bee-watcher might be sleeping on the job, so they hire a bee-watcher-watcher. When that doesn't work, they hire a bee-watcher-watcher-watcher, and so on and on.
Bedoya starts with a delightful analogy to The Hawtch-Hawtch, a mythical town from a Dr Seuss poem. The Hawtch-Hawtch economy is based on beekeeping, and the Hawtchers develop an overwhelming obsession with their bee's laziness, and determine to wring more work (and more honey) out of him. So they appoint a "bee-watcher." But the bee doesn't produce any more honey, which leads the Hawtchers to suspect their bee-watcher might be sleeping on the job, so they hire a bee-watcher-watcher. When that doesn't work, they hire a bee-watcher-watcher-watcher, and so on and on.
James Tindall
James Tindall  ·  3 months ago
@ariane @pluralistic
The infinite regress of management process, systems of labour control within a panoptic society of control, chimes rather well @baldur 's take on code frameworks and Generative AI being fundamentally about reduction of workers to the units of labour they perform, to maximise the power of arbitrage, while laying the way for full automation. https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/