JFC, people in tech are really out there saying that language models will be better at therapy, financial advice, and career advice than trained people.
WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve?
Language models can’t even do maths how are they supposed to get good at financial advice?
And therapy? Just… 😑
What’s wrong with people in tech?
@baldur tech is so sheltered from the real world. Many people in tech have never done anything else in their life and it shows and expresses itself in total disregard for other people's professions and skills.
(And the fact that many of them should go to therapy to understand a few things about themselves and why they feel the way they do but don't is just the cherry on top)
@tante @baldur Yep, this, plus the collision of several other mind worms.
Engineer's Syndrome/Disease: "I am a expert in this specific technical field, therefore I can solve the problems of other fields too."
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." You see this one all the time, with attempts to solve what are fundamentally hard social problems with tech silver bullets.
Motivated reasoning: tech people would make a lot of money if they really could replace experts from other fields with computers.
Baldur Bjarnason
tante
Anthony Horton