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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 15:42:06 JST Glyph

   “Genuinely good new tools don’t tend to need coercion to fuel their adoption only a few years into their existence, right? What the fuck is going on here?”

   https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

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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.

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     Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 06-Jul-2025 05:07:25 JST Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3

     in reply to

     • eevee

     @glyph
     @eevee

     Some of the questions about priorities and incentives are IMHO, covered in Nóva's book "Hacking Capitalism"