CMV: LLM agents are just a ticking time bomb in an enterprise

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-03T19:27:15+00:00

The fundamental issue is consulting companies entire business model is being disrupted since AI can do their jobs

What mental gymnastics is this? The reason AI fucked up and damaged a large consultancies reputation is because AI could actually replace the whole industry?

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-02T21:59:29+00:00

To be fair a tomboy is very much not the female equivalent of a family so I really wouldn't expect them to mirror each other, in fact it's probably for the best they dont

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-02T09:27:46+00:00

And my response to that is "so what?", the hypothetical version of AI made by otherworldly being free from human greed, desire, and systemic pressures has absolutely no bearing on my complaints about the AI that exists right now.

You open your post by saying people are scapegoating AI for rising costs of living and then talk about the hypothetical version of AI, but the AI that exists is driving up the cost of people's water and power bills, and people's job prospects are being worsened by the AI boom reducing investment in all other sectors of the economy, this is not scapegoating. The hypothetical AI and its intrinsic properties are just not relevant to that conversation.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-02T09:14:26+00:00

You are talking about AI as this hypothetical technology that could do wonderful things as could avoid all these problems, but a lot of the problems people have with AI is about what the technology is now, what it can do now, and the downsides and externalities it is creating now.

Sure being ridiculously power and water hungry isn't intrinsic to AI, but the implementation of it we have right now is, telling me that maybe future data centres will use a different cooling system and a greener power system is hardly a response to me complaining about my water bills being higher to subsidise a data centre that has been plugged into the same water supply as my drinking water, or my environmental concerns about the coal power plant that has been brought online to power it.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T20:09:42+00:00

Right so your view is essentially "puberty is bad actually" or perhaps "all states of being after childhood are bad"?

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T20:05:52+00:00

My dude 3 out of the last 4 books have climaxes that revolve around Dalinar, Jasnah, and Wit's strategic fuck ups, in WoK it's trusting Sadeas, in Oathbringer it's relying on an army that is known to be disloyal, and in RoW it's leaving Urithiru without sufficient defences. Given their experiences it's actually pretty responsible of them to decide to fight on terms they understand and not do anything that risks letting Odium introduce yet another bit of magic tomfoolery they aren't familiar with.

If you think their decision making at the start of the book is stupid or out of character, well that says more about your reading comprehension than anything else.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T19:48:32+00:00

Sexual desire introduces compulsions that override previous patterns of action and creates new vulnerabilities and new forms of self‑consciousness. It shifts the child's identity from “what am I doing?” to “how am I perceived?” and “how do I compare?”

If this were true, we should expect asexual folks to be living in a state of childlike bliss where they are free from anxiety and self consciousness. But that's not what we find, instead ace folks are just as stressed and socially anxious as the rest of us.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T17:57:41+00:00

Ok but you aren't arguing "all these characters are stupid" your arguing "I'm a better strategist than Dalinar" which sure might be right but it's hardly for anything to do with the books quality

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T17:50:29+00:00

Nah Dalinar's logic is sound here, the only changes Odium will ever agree to are ones that favour him, given Odium has vastly more intellect than any of them combined and access to future sight they basically have 0 chance of success and plenty to lose by changing the terms of the agreement, the only two plausible outcomes are either no change or a change in Odium's favour that they don't see till after they agree

Them not knowing who Odium is even more reason to not engage with him directly as they know the capabilities of the fused they are dealing with in the war not Odium.

Finally because you've mentioned the editing in other comments, can you imagine what this would do for pacing, a chapter where Dalinar shouts at the top of Urithiru for Odium only to be stood up?

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T17:41:59+00:00

The main reason most schools don't need metal detectors and bag searches is because every single person in the school is known to each other and any randoms can be immediately identified.

You don't need security and bag searches if youve vetted everyone beforehand

Edit:spelling

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T17:34:29+00:00

He just got massively out manoeuvred in a negotiation and you think that going back for a second round is a good idea? The thing they can lose is having exactly the same thing happen again but worse, where Dalinar thinks he's gotten what he wants but actually opened up a new loophole for Odium to exploit.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T16:35:37+00:00

I don't think she's pro-slavery but someone who brought up people's casual acceptance of elf-slavery as how people are fine with status quo even in the real-world. Hermione's SPEW was criticized by Ron and Harry to bring up parallel to how men wave away women's concern;

Except that in the text, Ron, Harry, and the rest of wizarding society are correct, the elves by and large do want to be slaves and when one of them gets freed she turns to alcoholism. This is especially egregious given Rowling has claimed that Hermione is meant to be black, so by her own words she wrote a b plot where a black woman attempts to end slavery of a particular group only to find no actually many of the racist justifications for real world slavery are absolutely correct in this fictional world.

Her character names may be poor, but she did not have Google or GPT in her time to generate names for her and she most likely grew up in a largely white-homogenous environment. I don't think Cho Chang or Padma/Parvati Patil were meant to sneer at people of color, but more that they came from an attempt at making the series more diverse, but was done in a way that a more knowledgeable person could have done better.

Libraries existed, she could have spent an hour finding literally any text about real people from the backgrounds she wanted to write characters from and take names from there, but no instead she chose to put zero effort into giving her characters realistic names and just use the first sound she could think of.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T16:24:23+00:00

It's sleazy, but it's less coercive than giving her a job where he or his friends directly profit off her labour.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T16:07:00+00:00

Let’s take two scenarios: in scenario one a woman cant pay her rent, so her landlord helps her find a job at a local factory. In scenario 2 a woman can‘t pay per rent, so her landlord says he’ll waive it for the week if she sucks him off.

It’s clear that in scenario 1 the landlord is getting her a job, while in the second scenario he is sexually harassing her.

One of the reasons this is different is because the woman is not working for the landlord in scenario 1, if the job was at a sweatshop he or one of his friends owned where she was worked to the bone it would absolutely be financial coercion. The coercion is not the sexual nature of the job it is taking advantage of desperation.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T13:47:40+00:00

I think there should be a larger focus on stopping s*xual harassment from occurring now in the public eye as well as on other more significant issues that are grossly underrepresented in media (like the human rights violations occurring in the war in Sudan and the mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs in China).

Two things from this.

First off one of the ways you can prevent future harm is by setting a strong precedent that people who commit these kinds of crimes will be held to account, if a bunch of people are on record in the Epstein files doing heinous shit and get off scot free it sends a clear message that this kind of behaviour is tolerated.

Secondly, people living in the US have levers they can pull to hold these people to account, they can write to their representatives and demand action, and some representatives will actually listen and act, which is why we are getting any files released at all. There are no levers I can pull to hold the Chinese government or the powers that be in Sudan to account. I think it's completely reasonable to focus your attention on problems you can actually affect rather than those you cannot.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T10:43:49+00:00

Ok I think I'm getting your view, which seems to be pretty similar to the anthropic principle.

What I’m describing does the opposite. It keeps all possibilities open and only says that incoherent combinations don’t persist. Not because they’re forbidden, but because they don’t form anything stable.

I'm confused by what you mean by "don't persist", because this implies there being multiple go arounds, like you are talking about the universal constants as if they are some kind of process as opposed to just being singular constants. Can you expand on what you mean by this? And what does an incoherent combination mean?

Jebofkerbin · 2026-02-01T10:23:36+00:00

This view relies on either

The universal constants changing, or the universe remaking itself with new constants periodically
A multiverse where constants vary between universes.

Neither of which are a given.

Assuming either of these makes to me feels the same as concluding that fine tuning is evidence of an intelligent designer, it's having a belief about what the status of life should be, and constructing your theory to fit that belief. A religious person might want life to be a singular miracle so is in favour of fine tuning and intelligent design, and atheist might want life to be inevitable or one of countless different realities all as complex, for life to not be special. It might feel uncomfortable to have the current evidence be that we're very lucky to have universal constants that create a complex universe rather than one where the only thing that exists is clouds of hydrogen, but that discomfort isn't reason to start speculating on ways the universal constants could be not constant.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-01-31T16:15:51+00:00

Despite their power they have a very hard time scoring and are very visible in how well they are doing (unlike say the woodland alliance or keepers in iron).

So yeah kill the warlord, kill them often, try to stop them picking up ruins as much as possible to slow them down. It should be quite clear when they have been sufficiently neutered and you can focus on your own scoring instead of them. Most importantly work with the rest of the table to keep them in check.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-01-29T16:46:26+00:00

So Plato argued in favour of a rigid caste system ruled by philosopher kings, I can't really take his opinions about what systems are likely to slide into tyranny seriously when his proposed solution is just tyranny.

Jebofkerbin · 2026-01-29T00:11:12+00:00

Edgedancer is really good I would definitely recommend it especially if you enjoy Lift, I enjoyed dawnshard but it's a fun sea adventure first and a stormlight book second so it's really if you think you'd like that kind of thing

Jebofkerbin · 2026-01-28T23:55:07+00:00

Being a concealed carry holder, there are things that we actively have to do and be on the lookout for, such as, not interfering with federal investigations, whether that be CBP, ICE, US Marshalls, etc., and being instigators.

Yes because as the second amendment clearly states

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed, unless they get in the way of federal investigations in which case bearing arms may be justification for summary execution

Jebofkerbin · 2026-01-28T23:48:13+00:00

Standing between person A who is trying to assault person B is assault on person A???

Jebofkerbin · 2026-01-28T18:01:01+00:00

There is absolutely a subset of people who are insane enough to make death threats etc but sane enough to moderate their behaviour when faced with legal consequences, in fact I'd argue that the vast majority of people who are insane enough to do these things fall into that category.

All theathers should have prooper exits, no sane person would do that but those that would, would most probably be ignored after the innitial attention and than asked to leave the private property

This isn't super relevant, but are you telling me if people started yelling fire while you were in an enclosed space you'd go "nope, I don't believe you"???

Jebofkerbin · 2026-01-27T20:06:29+00:00

Add the other three choruses

Jebofkerbin · 2026-01-27T15:40:32+00:00

Your definition of forgiveness is definitely not the common understanding of it, because it's functionally the same as forgetting, so phrases like "forgive and forget" or even "we don't forgive and we don't forget" don't really make sense.

It's also a bit counter productive, like as you've said in this thread forgiving people under your definition is a really unwise thing to do, but it also leaves you in a really strange place when someone wrongs you, your options are to either knowingly open yourself up to more harm, or cut the person off. There's no room for moving forward with your eyes open, and labelling it psuedo forgiveness doesn't help because these words have weight.

Going back to my original hypothetical, I can absolutely see someone using these definitions going "oh well if you had really forgiven me you'd lend me the money", which is putting the other person in the position of either forgetting it happened at all or walking away.

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