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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

204 points · 156 comments · robin_reala

science4sail · 1789752071 · focus · HN ↗
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     Let&#x27;s say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There&#x27;s no point at which this methodology will work for the employee
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I would argue that there's still an important role for human employees as compliance ablative armor.
The human's purpose is to keep an eye on the LLM, occasionally intervene/interfere with its work, and most importantly, incur social/legal liability for anything that the LLM does wrong.
Kind of like the backup drivers used by self-driving cars.
1. kg · 1789753503 · focus · HN ↗
  Is being compliance ablative armor uplifting, fulfilling work? Is there any way in which your personal competence and effort impacts whether the AI screws up or not? Do you have any way to build job security as ablative armor?
  That sounds miserable.
  1. pixl97 · 1789756282 · focus · HN ↗
    >That sounds miserable.
    Welcome to our future that was already here years ago.
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
    Fulfilling work disappeared a long time ago, the book bringing this up was from 2018 before chatbots were really a thing. We are just experiencing the acceleration to all jobs being bullshit jobs.

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