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   Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 04:52:25 JST Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3

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   @glyph
   I'm only half way through and already delighted to find someone who might actually be interested in the bugs I found in accounting.

   I can answer most of their questions but I don't know if anyone else is interested.
   A general one around the utility of LLMs

   Q: people compare LLMs to calculators, or screwdrivers, or digital cameras, or whatever. I’m left wondering if the people saying this stuff have ever used any of those things.

   A: No, they have not used any of those tools (or table saws).
   The false analogy results from their observation that using $TOOL results in $WHATEVER.
   It's the cargo cult pattern.
   Since their process is optimized for producing $WHATEVER, everything else is someone else's problem.

   ------ ok, so what? ------
   I'm glad you asked. There is a scenario where all these musings become actionable.
   In fact, it's the potential competitive advantage of #cooperatives over #corporate businesses.

   TL;DR: overtime, businesses controlled by external stakeholders become more expensive to operate.

   OTOH, if an organization can make decisions based on operational requirements _instead of_ financial reporting requirements, they MAY avoid the accumulation of entropy and waste.

   Otherwise, cargo culture takes over and we end up with Enron, Lehman Brothers and Theranos.