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simonwtoday at 4:18 AM1 replyview on HN

A key job of management is to figure out what's actually going on, as opposed to just what people tell you is going on.

LLMs are inherently gullible.


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roenxitoday at 8:40 AM

Human managers are inherently gullible; we've got no plausible path to unbias them. LLMs have at least one plausible path which is to train them to be a little bit cynical.

We're not going to call it "management" necessarily, but there is no question that LLMs are going to take over decision making from managers eventually. Why choose a monkey guessing what the evidence says you should do when you could have an optimised evidence-weighted statistical model making the bets? The only reason to use humans is there are still technical limits on how general the models are, limits that seem to be falling away at a pleasing rate.

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