wild that so many people are putting, like, all their chips on Incompetence As A Service replacing trained employees, but it makes more sense when you realize that a lot of people making management decisions don't have the background to distinguish between a meaningful essay and clever bullshit, or between clean functional code and enterprise boilerplate bullshit
LLMs are being pushed in the workplace for exactly the same reason that trump was elected -- lots of people make important decisions based entirely on vibes, and bullshit operates on vibes
statistically-probable sequences of words that do not represent a coherent logical structure but pretend to (i.e., what LLMs produce) is, definitionally, bullshit
the only countermeasure to bullshit is for every individual to reject vibes in favor of structural analysis, except in situations when the problems that inevitably stem from operating on the basis of vibes can be completely ignored
if somebody tells you to "trust your gut" they are trying to rip you off.
Vibes are really useful for guiding your structural analysis, but if you only operate on vibes & never question them, you're gonna believe things based on whether or not the person saying them is charismatic instead of based on whether or not they're true.
Vibes eat less glucose than structural analysis & most people barely have enough energy to watch TV after work so I can't blame people for conserving cycles. It's not a personal issue so much as a structural one: bullshit has power because we've made a society where most people can't afford to think, and those who can are discouraged from doing so or are told to think only in particular domains.
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