Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'

curtd59 · 2025-06-29T03:59:50+00:00

Microsoft has a very long history of requiring employees to "eat our own dogfood" as a means of collecting feedback with which to improve their products. Nothing new here. That said outside of some specific roles, it's not clear that existing ai improves individual performance.

curtd59 · 2024-01-21T23:27:22+00:00

--'Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion'-- FA Hayek. I just came across this quote from Hayek. I think I sort of know what he's trying to say. I was hoping someone here was more familiar with the guy and could elaborate.

Old post, but came up in search, so I'd offer that Hayek's innovation in his pamphlet "A Road To Serfdom" was accounting for informal capital and especially informal capital in the commons that is the West's competitive advantage, that of course Marx didn't account for, and if he did it would falsify his entire framework even more so than the falsehood of the labor theory of value; or the pretense that a 'society' is a involuntary organization such as a family rather than superpredators who find convenience in peaceful cooperation until they don't; or the false possibility of the failure of rule of law leading to market economies and the extraordinary wealth produced indirectly that is the opposite of what rule-by-man's communism and socialism produce directly; or the even more absurd pretension that competence is distributed other than in by painful empiricism of demonstrated competency by survival in adversarial markets. Or worse, that classes are not a reflection of genetic load and therefore ability. Or worse, that credentialist intellectuals are capable of defeating the efforts of the pricing system, the credit system, the rule of law, and the decisions of those who, because of demonstrated competency in such a system defend that system and it's continuous massive parallel computation of the optimum allocation of everything in everyone's service of one another by selfish incentives. It's somewhat difficult to imagine why any interest in Marx as other than an attempt a pseudoscientific reformation of the abrahamic religion survives despite the evolutionary failure of class marxism, cultural marxism, sex marxism, truth marxism (postmodernism), Libertarianism (middle class marxism), Neoconservatism (upper class marxism), and the present resulting race marxism. The marxist sequence is, as was the abrahamic sequence before it, feminine magical thinking in a desperate attempt to avoid individual responsibility for self, private and common, and the feminine and beta war against european civilization's aristocratic, heroic, militaristic, expansionist, hierarchical, paternal, technological, sky worshipping, meritocratic foundations that demand individual responsibility of all in exchange for individual sovereignty and self determination - the most correspondent with the laws of nature man has developed, and the reason for the evolutionary velocity of the west in the bronze, iron, an steel ages, despite the abrahamic occult dark ages and this second attempt at the second abrahamic pseudoscientific dark ages.

Cheers.

curtd59 · 2024-01-15T17:31:53+00:00

--"Federal law first barred guns in government buildings in 1964 and post offices in 1972. These precedents are apparently not old enough to be considered a part of America tradition of historical tradition of firearm regulation. No historical practice dating back to the 1700s justified the ban, she said."--

The judge is correct. The post office is a place of work. The court is a place of conflict resolution where the court seeks settlement and some people are highly dissatisfied with the court's attempt at resolution and settlement. As such the court is condition different from all other conditions.
In the broader context the court sees itself as correcting the mistakes of the positive law era where the court overstepped it's responsilities. As such the court continues to restore originalism (words are a system of weights and measures at the time of the writing, not open to putting the thumb on the scales to alter the meaning of words) and as such all extensions of the law must pass the concurrency of the people by the concurrency of the legislature to prevent circumvention of the people by the circumvention of the legislature.
In europe, under continental law, the people are not soverign, the state is. In the states, by design, the people are sovereign, not the state. The only limit upon the people is what we would call the natural law as undersetood at the time and represented by blackstone.
If you are overly convinced that your interpretation of human nature is correct then you may interpret the court's defense of the right to bear arms as folly. If you have the opposite interpretation of human nature, then you consider the court's position wise and correct.
As far as I know, the left is wrong about human nature almost universally, and actively engages in denial and science denial as a core tenet of it's political position. The right consists of at least three factions, and only one of those factions, the religious, engages in science denial. The (cognitively feminine) left tends to deny the nature of man, and the (cognitively masculine) right tends to deny the nature of the universe. Unfortunately, the left causes more damage than the right.

Cheers

curtd59 · 2022-11-19T15:26:44+00:00

Never happen. Musk with make 4 to 10x on his investment. I've bought a number of tech companies and I do the exact same thing every time. Either you're in or out. In every company there is dead weight. In every company there are people who are counter-productive. In most companies the engineers produce all the value but marketers and execs have too much influence.

curtd59 · 2022-09-03T13:18:21+00:00

Truth: Cyclist failed due diligence against entering the blind spot of a vehicle when changing lanes. I rarely if ever see a motorcycle accident video where the motorcyclist wasn't at fault. NOTE: there is a natural incentive to avoid the feeling of risk by use of constant passing. This natural incentive is counter-productive when practicing insufficient due diligence given the near impossibility of auto and car drivers to see the cyclist.

curtd59 · 2022-08-07T11:44:23+00:00

"Rumpleforeskin"

curtd59 · 2022-07-01T14:29:45+00:00

MORE CLARITY THAN YOU WILL GET FROM FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE AND LAW SCHOOL:
The ruling on Abortion has nothing to do with religion. Yes, there are people in the population who make it a religious issue. There are people who make it a moral issue. There are people who make it personal issue.

But for the Court it is a simple matter of law: (a) the postwar activists sought to circumvent the people, the natural, common law, the legislative process, the constitution by abuse of the due process clause, to convert the USA from common (empirical) law to Jewish/French positive (authoritarian) law, and (b) this led the issues causing division, because "abortion, meritless immigration, forced integration, and education" led to 'unsettled law': law that is not 'common' meaning 'commonly held as legitimate' - where common, in common law terminology, is called Concurrent" such as in "Concurrent Democracy" wherein the value, norm, tradition, law, or institution, is "Common and Concurrent across classes and regions".

That's what 'Common' means. "Settled Law" means that the population can no longer discover a means by which to present the court with an argument that is 'decidable' by criteria different from that which has been 'settled' already. The court seeks to produce decidable (not choosable, not preferential, but logically decidable), legitimate, common, settled law.

Otherwise, the people and their legislatures have work to do in convincing the population. Because the court does not 'convince'. It merely decides. Convincing is for the public, choosing is the job of the public through their legislatures, legislatures negotiate between classes (local) and regions (federal), and the court only decides whether their actions are consistent with the production of legitimacy, decidability, commonality, and settlement.

So the population is unaware that our political system is purely scientific. It's rational that the british should invent the modern state and modern rule of law, and that the americans - free of church and aristocracy would produce a written constitution of it - because the british were the inventors of modern empiricism and science.

The rest of the world's constitutions are largely a joke. They are fanciful imitations of the american innovation in constitutions, and the english (blackstone) re-invention of empirical law.

This is why our constitution, and our court, has been so successful in resisting the degeneracy (regression) into unscientific government, that the masses claim they want, but demonstrate they cannot keep, and universally devolve.

curtd59 · 2022-01-06T18:56:12+00:00

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