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? in a professional setting, my coworkers are just randomly gonna make stuff up

• AndrewKemendo 3mo ago
  That is the entire industry of business consulting. Boston consulting group Bain and MacKenzie make billions of years completely making shit up. same thing with Ernst and young and any of these organizations that make these “future of (insert market)” reports
  • whateveracct 3mo ago
    right, so none of my human coworkers ever
  • Diogenesian 3mo ago
    Again, they never made up totally fictional citations or any otherwise immediately falsifiable statements. In fact it is the opposite problem: technically these reports are quite clean and up to finest MBA standards. The BS is ideological / methodological / social / delusionally optimistic strategizing, and so on. This BS involves the most powerful and haziest forms of human cognition. Consultants "making stuff up" really is not the same thing as a frontier SOTA LLM being unable to summarize a document without making up a few numbers.