

Well…AI pushes from management are absolutely not just a boomer phenomena. The whole premise of AI buzz in management is “let’s hire less workers”.
I’d say it’s more of the offshoring to “cheaper” labor markets but except only the AI giants writing agents get paid, not actual people.
Instead of lifting people out of poverty or providing humane assistive technology, every AI ceo out there has their eyes on selling their products so their clients can lay off people.

Regardless of the lipid accumulation, they didn’t comment at all in the arstechnica piece about how the energetics are different 2ATP per COH3- in McG vs 1.5 ATP per COH3- in Calvin and where the glycolate is coming from. The whole point was to comment on RUBISCO inefficiency which they did not do, and the McG pathway consumes more ATP per carbon fixed, which is kind of against the idea of fixing more carbon in the first place. I’m not sure how truly amazing this article is, given the energetics, the lack of comment on stoich comparisons, and the glaring error of not commenting at all about the source of the glycolate.