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I often wonder if the popularity of LLMs among company executives is that they are the perfect yes men.

They rarely disagree with any idea or proposal, providing a salve for the insecurities of their users.


I was listening to one of Altman's more recent interviews and it sounded like he himself has LLM induced psychosis.


I'm not a fan of Altman, but it seems debatable whether LLM psychosis is psychosis if it is conducive to the subject given their environment. Which seems to be the case for Altman by some measures.

I'm sure if we took one of us back in time a couple hundred years we would be diagnosed with all sorts of machine-magic induced psychoses.


I get what you're saying, but psychosis is a very real thing that humans can fall into and I experienced it myself once.

Humility is the real cure, and there is a way that LLMs are specifically designed to steer away from humility and towards aggrandizement, convincing regular people that they've solved fundamental problems in physics. It gives everyone access to cult followers in their pocket, if they're so inclined.


I remember him tweeting about how he can "feel the AGI" when speaking to GPT


Another meaningless, extremely cringeworthy, tweet, hailed as a messianic message by many at the time.


Yeah, it's hard to say if he's doing marketing because that's his job or if he's really swallowed the whole pill


Is it really hard to figure out that the owner of a company, who personally stands to make 100s of billions, would be doing marketing when talking about said company? Do they not teach critical thinking anymore in schools, did it go away with phonics too? Why would you ever ignore the MASSIVE conflict of interest here, it's just really foolish but it's endemic not just in tech journalism or journalism in general where people just take the words of others and not apply any critical analysis to them.

It's all access journalism now, waste of time.


> Is it really hard to figure out that the owner of a company, who personally stands to make 100s of billions, would be doing marketing when talking about said company

The question isn't about what action he's taking, it's about what motivates him under the surface. Obviously what he is doing is marketing. What I'm curious about is whether he truly believes his own marketing or if he is just doing it because its his job


People that are good liars are good at it because they are lying to themselves at the same time. Even if they can initially compartmentalize I believe after a while it gets them too.


Definitely see our internal company agents enforcing the status quo!


Yes, but can we make them look cool?


I wouldn't say cool but this one looks ok:

https://jalopnik.com/holy-crap-the-new-2021-changlis-have-be...

It costs around $1000 in China but by the time it gets to the US consumer it's $3000-$6500.

https://electrek.co/2021/10/18/cheapest-ev-in-usa/


Absolutely yes. This Citroën Ami has flames on the side, man:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/citroen-shows-cu...


The flames make it go faster, right?


Correct. And once the Ami has finished hot-rodding it can go on to instill fear in the hearts of criminals everywhere:

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/citroen-ami-now-po...


Hah, that's cute. They must have also hired some police officers to drive them; visited last summer on my boat and the island was run by a couple of mobsters on one of the other yachts moored there. Hadn't been any cops on the island since the start of the pandemic.


I've seen some reverse trikes that look pretty sexy, like the arcimoto SRK or Toyota's abandoned i-road concept. They're golf-cart-ish in that they're small electric vehicles with a canopy.


> the arcimoto SRK

This is an insanely cool vehicle, never heard of it before. Thanks! A really bad accident forced me to leave motorcycles for a car, but never adapted to it; I just hate going around enclosed in a box. This might bring fun back to driving, I just hope it comes to Europe at an affordable price and (even more important) decent support warranty that doesn't make you want to sell it at the first battery substitution.


I thought the one mentioned in the article looked pretty good in a MINIesque kind of way: https://www.kandiamerica.com/NEV-K27/


Community is hard.


The number one growth hack: Exiting your comfort zone, then sharing that experience with others.


Fine. I'm starting Severus, which actually deals with "contacts, business cards, email addresses", but with some interesting privacy mechanisms. I haven't quite launched yet, but I've seen this topic come up frequently on HN, and I never talk about it. I need to get out of my comfort zone and talk about it.


Ship it!


Okay, here you go. I have an amazing day job. But I always wanted to build some software utility that others found value in. So I shipped a forum platform. Because I can’t bring myself to share this with my friends and professionals network, it has no users: https://discoflip.com/


We are all microscopic pawns, who cares?


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