I like the black knight from the same work.

None of it is earned. It is handed to them, and this offends me.”

“You asked me what I want,” Black said. “This once, just this once, I want us to win.”

The smile across his face was a cutting, vicious thing.

“To spit in the eyes of the Hashmallim. To trample the pride of all those glorious, righteous princes. To scatter their wizards and make their oracles liars. Just to prove that it can be done.”

There was something his eyes burning like coals and embers.

“So that five hundred years from now, a band of heroes shiver in the dark of night. Because they know that no matter how powerful their sword or righteous their cause, there was once a time it wasn’t enough. That even victories ordained by the Heavens can broken by the will of men.”

Because companies have been talking up how their adoption of AI is going to make them faster and more able to capitalise on opportunities in order to prop up their valuations for a while now and it seems to work as far as share price goes.

Being able back up this talk with metrics showing that their employees are all in on AI reinforces this, since the share price is the metric the business optimises for over product development employee reviews will index on this over cost effectiveness, and at most big tech companies engineers are very much making every decision with an eye to performance review optimisation (i.e. how it will affect their next review rather than the product they are building)

There is also some lesser incentives in that meta employees care directly about the meta share price since a lot of their compensation is in the form of RSUs.

I’m not condonig this as a desirable state of affairs, just explaining the incentive curve that the actors are following.

I don’t think there is much of a thought process. Or at least his actions are emotionally consistent but not intellectual consistent.

Being broken up with is painful, either as a sense of loss or as ego pain.

In order to make both disappear he needs to get back with you, but if he only cares about making the ego pain disappear he just needs to convince himself he is better off without you, and the easy way to convince yourself of something is to convince others.

So both actions are just him responding to (what I assume is) ego pain, neither of them are necessarily informed by his true perception of who you are.

Edit: none of this excuses his actions btw, it’s meant as a way to understand why he is saying cruel things and to understand that the things he is saying have no basis in reality.

How did your boyfriend talk about you to third parties while you were together?