[jinbachman]

Very impressive.

So Satya Nadella shoves Recall in Windows so that it takes screenshots every few seconds. Satya then sits there scratching his head wondering what to do with all these crap pictures his highly innovative product has captured.

Uber is silently watching and is highly impressed by Satya's innovation and decides to pay its large fleet of employees (sorry, no, they aren't employees) to label these pictures. Having nothing better to do, they start labelling these pictures as hot dog or not hot dog.

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg is outdoors surfing and hunting but doesn't want to be left out from these once in a lifetime innovations. Mark, a very smart individual, has already foreseen where all this innovation is headed. He rushes home and gets busy and throws around money to buy people who can use these labelled pictures to build him a "AI" bot which can tell him how to make korean sauce.

Very impressive bunch of highly intelligent individuals bringing us billions worth of artificial intelligence revolution. Marvellous.

[ryandrake]

I've always wondered what the world would look like if these huge powerful corporations were run by average people instead of multi-billionaires completely out of touch with what it's like to live in the world. Like have a lottery where everyone gets a single ticket, and the person whose name is drawn gets to be the CEO of Apple for a year, and the 10 next-drawn tickets get to be the senior staff.

[jamwil]

This is similar to my idea for a better democracy. Every cycle involves a lottery where, say, 1000 random citizens become eligible to run for public office. A small enough number to make ‘career politician/sociopath’ an unviable life path but large enough that there will inevitably be some excellent potential candidates in the pool that wouldn’t have entered politics otherwise.

[r721]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

[jamwil]

Close but slightly different. As I envision it, the random selection would only be for the pool of candidates. People in the pool would have the option but not the obligation to run and there would still be campaigns and voting as there are now, just with a very narrow slice of the population eligible to run if they choose.

The only goal is to remove politics as a career option, since it is quite improbable that any one person would win the lottery to be eligible. A secondary goal is that a potentially great leader who would not have considered politics under current system’s may well be called to duty if they are drawn into the pool and view themselves as a strong option within the pool.

[andriesm]

What a brilliant idea. Definitely love it for politics. Not for CEO of any share I own!