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From the mentioned Reddit thread: > Go back and tell the CEO, great news: we can save eight times as much money by replacing our CEO with an AI. The funny ("f

From the mentioned Reddit thread: > Go back and tell the CEO, great news: we can save eight times as much money by replacing our CEO with an AI. The funny ("funny"?) thing is, this is proposal is somehow missing in most discussions about AI. But seriously, the quality of decision making would probably not suffer that much if we replaced our elites with LLMs, and it still would be way cheaper, on the whole (and with mostly the same accountability). But apparently people in charge don't see themselves as fungible and would rather not replace themselves with AI; and since they are the ones in charge then this, tautologically, won't happen.

bee_rider 1y ago
This is a funny point, but I think it is just kind of a joke for the most part. Ultimately the CEO’s job is to eat responsibility, the LLM can’t be given a golden parachute and pushed out the window when the company has a bad quarter, so it is functionally useless. However, there’s probably a kernel of truth. I guess the org tree should grow like log(n_employees). If AI really makes the workers multiple times more effective, then the size of the company could shrink, resulting shorter trees. Maybe some layers could be replaced entirely by AI as well. There is also maybe an opportunity for a radically different shape to solve the “LLM can’t bear responsibility” problem. Like a collection of guilds and independent contractors coordinated by a LLM. In that case the responsibility stays in the components.
- Joker_vD 1y ago
  > Ultimately the CEO’s job is to eat responsibility, the LLM can’t be given a golden parachute and pushed out the window when the company has a bad quarter, so it is functionally useless. So the shareholders vote to switch from ChatGPT to DeepSeek :) and they don't even have to pay out the parting bonus to it! And it's nobody's fault, just the market forces of nature that the quarter was rough. It's a win-win-whatever situation, really.
vannevar 1y ago
Ironically, this is probably one of the best uses of AI, and I expect we'll see tech cooperatives arise and start experimenting with it sooner rather than later.

bee_rider 1y ago

This is a funny point, but I think it is just kind of a joke for the most part. Ultimately the CEO’s job is to eat responsibility, the LLM can’t be given a golden parachute and pushed out the window when the company has a bad quarter, so it is functionally useless. However, there’s probably a kernel of truth. I guess the org tree should grow like log(n_employees). If AI really makes the workers multiple times more effective, then the size of the company could shrink, resulting shorter trees. Maybe some layers could be replaced entirely by AI as well. There is also maybe an opportunity for a radically different shape to solve the “LLM can’t bear responsibility” problem. Like a collection of guilds and independent contractors coordinated by a LLM. In that case the responsibility stays in the components.

Joker_vD 1y ago
> Ultimately the CEO’s job is to eat responsibility, the LLM can’t be given a golden parachute and pushed out the window when the company has a bad quarter, so it is functionally useless. So the shareholders vote to switch from ChatGPT to DeepSeek :) and they don't even have to pay out the parting bonus to it! And it's nobody's fault, just the market forces of nature that the quarter was rough. It's a win-win-whatever situation, really.

vannevar 1y ago

Ironically, this is probably one of the best uses of AI, and I expect we'll see tech cooperatives arise and start experimenting with it sooner rather than later.