• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    First rule for any data scientist working under Musk…

    Find numbers that make him happy. Hide/deprioritize numbers that don’t make him happy.

    Else you will get fired.

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      1 year ago

      Where have I seen this pattern before…?

      Oh, right! The mass famine of the Great Leap Forward was caused by exactly this kind of thing! But … I’ve seen this pattern elsewhere. Let me think…

      Oh, right! Literally every medium- to large-sized corporate entity I’ve ever worked in!

      There’s a reason why I call corporate thinking “corporate communism”.