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Exactly. Agentic LLMs are amazing for people who suffer from chronic akrasia.
by meowface 1y ago
Exactly. Agentic LLMs are amazing for people who suffer from chronic akrasia.
- rosstex 1y agoOH wow, a word to describe me
- _9ptr 1y agoThe latin word for that is "incontinentia".
- latexr 1y agoThose 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 1y agoAs 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 1y agoBut it’s not 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/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html https://archive.ph/20250924025805/https://www.nytimes.com/20... https://archive.is/26aHF https://archive.is/26aHF
- meowface 1y agoThose are chatbots and those issues are not akrasia. We're talking about very different things in multiple dimensions.