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meowface
74 days ago
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Exactly. Agentic LLMs are amazing for people who suffer from chronic akrasia.
rosstex
74 days ago
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OH wow, a word to describe me
_9ptr
74 days ago
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The latin word for that is "incontinentia".
latexr
74 days ago
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Those are exactly the people who shouldn’t use these tools. They’ll be sucked in to whatever bullshit the LLM peddles them and become unable to leave.
meowface
74 days ago
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As long as it's helping them be productive, I don't really see an issue with that. Going from doing nothing to doing something is a net boost.
latexr
73 days ago
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But it’s
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helping them “be productive” (which is a horrible metric anyway, life is not about productivity above everything else), it’s sucking their lives and severing their relationships and connection to the real world.
https://archive.ph/20250924025805/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
https://archive.is/26aHF
meowface
70 days ago
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Those are chatbots and those issues are not akrasia. We're talking about very different things in multiple dimensions.
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