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Well, I look forward to watching the first meeting where the CEO needs to explain their business plan to a LLM.

bee_rider 1y ago
I’d definitely be interested in at least giving a shot at working for a company CEO’d by a LLM… maybe, 3 years from now. I don’t know if I really believe that it would be better than a human in every domain. But it definitely won’t have a cousin on the board of a competitor, reveal our plans to golfing buddies, make promotions based on handshake strength, or get canceled for hitting on employees.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y ago
  But it will change its business plan the first time someone says "No, that doesn't make sense", and then it'll forget what either plan was after a half hour. To be CEO is to have opinions and convictions, even if they are incorrect. That's beyond LLMs.
  - bee_rider 1y ago
    Minor tangential quibble: I think it is more accurate to say that to be human is to have opinions and convictions. But, maybe being CEO is a job that really requires turning certain types of opinions and convictions into actions. More to the point, I was under the impression that current super-subservient LLMs were just a result of the fine-tuning process. Of course, the LLM doesn’t have an internal mental state so we can’t say it has an opinion. But, it could be fine-tuned to act like it does, right?
    - SketchySeaBeast 1y ago
      That was my point - to be CEO is to have convictions that you're willing to bet a whole company upon. Who is fine-tuning the LLM? If you're having someone turns the dials and setting core concepts and policies so that they persist outside the context window it seems to me that they're the actual leader.
      - bee_rider 1y ago
        Generally the companies that sell these LLMs as a service do things like fine-tuning and designing built-in parts of the prompt. If we want to say we consider the employees of those companies to be the ones actually doing <the thing>, I could be convinced, I think. But, I think it is an unusual interpretation, usually we consider the one doing <the thing> to be the person using the LLM. I’m speculating about a company run by an LLM (which doesn’t exist yet), so it seems plausible enough that all of the employees of the company could use it together (why not?).
        SketchySeaBeast 1y ago
        A LLM that takes in everyone's ideas and decides a court semi-democratically? Throw in profit sharing and you may be on to something.
        bee_rider 1y ago
        Yeah, or maybe even a structure that is like a collection of co-ops, guilds, and/or franchises somehow coordinated by an LLM. The mechanism for actually running the thing semi-democratically would definitely need to be worked out!

I’d definitely be interested in at least giving a shot at working for a company CEO’d by a LLM… maybe, 3 years from now. I don’t know if I really believe that it would be better than a human in every domain. But it definitely won’t have a cousin on the board of a competitor, reveal our plans to golfing buddies, make promotions based on handshake strength, or get canceled for hitting on employees.

SketchySeaBeast 1y ago
But it will change its business plan the first time someone says "No, that doesn't make sense", and then it'll forget what either plan was after a half hour. To be CEO is to have opinions and convictions, even if they are incorrect. That's beyond LLMs.
- bee_rider 1y ago
  Minor tangential quibble: I think it is more accurate to say that to be human is to have opinions and convictions. But, maybe being CEO is a job that really requires turning certain types of opinions and convictions into actions. More to the point, I was under the impression that current super-subservient LLMs were just a result of the fine-tuning process. Of course, the LLM doesn’t have an internal mental state so we can’t say it has an opinion. But, it could be fine-tuned to act like it does, right?
  - SketchySeaBeast 1y ago
    That was my point - to be CEO is to have convictions that you're willing to bet a whole company upon. Who is fine-tuning the LLM? If you're having someone turns the dials and setting core concepts and policies so that they persist outside the context window it seems to me that they're the actual leader.
    - bee_rider 1y ago
      Generally the companies that sell these LLMs as a service do things like fine-tuning and designing built-in parts of the prompt. If we want to say we consider the employees of those companies to be the ones actually doing <the thing>, I could be convinced, I think. But, I think it is an unusual interpretation, usually we consider the one doing <the thing> to be the person using the LLM. I’m speculating about a company run by an LLM (which doesn’t exist yet), so it seems plausible enough that all of the employees of the company could use it together (why not?).
      - SketchySeaBeast 1y ago
        A LLM that takes in everyone's ideas and decides a court semi-democratically? Throw in profit sharing and you may be on to something.
        bee_rider 1y ago
        Yeah, or maybe even a structure that is like a collection of co-ops, guilds, and/or franchises somehow coordinated by an LLM. The mechanism for actually running the thing semi-democratically would definitely need to be worked out!