Seven Dirty Words, but Do You Recall, the Dirtiest Word of them All?

Back in the 70s, they prosecuted George Carlin for seven dirty words. Since I happen to like profanity, I'll include them all here: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits.

It's Christmas time. You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, and Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, but do you recall, the most famous reindeer of all?

You know shit and piss and fuck and cunt, cocksucker and motherfucker and tits and asshole, but do you recall, the dirtiest word of them all?

It's "scale"! And they use it millions of times per day in Silicon Valley.

Riffing on somebody's Gemini post.

Sean Conner — I'm adjusting my tin hat to talk a bit about Google banning

It's not that Google can't fix the issue, it's just that it's not something that is easily done, or cheap. And it's not something any one employee can fix, due to how the whole software gestalt that runs on the computers and handles everything at Google works. And this I don't think is often talked about, or even known. Heck, it's an educated guess on my part, but with Google big on automation (because as they have stated often times, “humans don't scale”) they just can't (or won't) manually deal with the 500 hours of video uploaded every minute at Google (as of June 2022, which seems to be most quoted value I found with minimal searching).

Yeah, humans don't scale. That's a feature, not a bug. Scale is the enemy of humanity.