| ▲ | pessimizer 3 hours ago | |
> almost all of my friends working in critical domains like as a judge or engineer or lawyer or even doctor, they seem to trust ChatGPT more or less blindly. We do not live in a meritocracy, because society has no means to judge merit. We live in a society ruled by people who crammed before the tests, and who wrote the papers to agree with and flatter the teacher. Now they are the teachers (and bosses), and 1) expect to be flattered (and LLMs have been built as the ultimate flatterers), 2) feel that a good, ambitious student (or subordinate) will not question them and their work, but instead learn to conform to it, and 3) are not particularly interested in the quality of their work as such, but rather the acceptance of their work. In certain professions, such as judges, doctors, high-level lawyers and engineers, or politicians, they feel like (with good reason) that they can demand acceptance of their work, and punish those who don't accept it. This position is what they worked so hard as young people for. They were not working to become the best at their jobs. They were working to get the most secure jobs. The most secure jobs are the ones that bad or lazy work doesn't endanger. | ||