sometimes my friends in old data science orgs tell me what shit is like there, and i'm just so happy i'm the first data hire in my company of extremely smart thinkers. i don't have to deal with any weird leaders with AI psychosis.
Many users criticize leaders with AI psychosis for irrationally overrelying on tools like Claude, which they see as absurd, frustrating, and distorting productivity and decisions.
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What's up with this phenomenon
sometimes my friends in old data science orgs tell me what shit is like there, and i'm just so happy i'm the first data hire in my company of extremely smart thinkers. i don't have to deal with any weird leaders with AI psychosis.
@shakoistsLog Go on… story time?
@yacineMTB I call it epistemic capture. People used to rely on the cost of signaling and presence as a substitute of experience and truth-worthiness. A system that is always present, always attentive and talks like an expert one-shots them. I have seen entire executive suites hijacked.
@shakoistsLog oh god i can only imagine. like:
“did you plug it into a spreadsheet and look at it yourself?”
“i don’t have to, they already told me what it means!”
@yacineMTB LLMs duping productivity
@yacineMTB clearly depends on leadership and overall company culture. Good luck dealing with CEOs thinking data scientists are useless because Claude.
The opposite is true, but mostly happens in contexts where leadership is technical.
@shakoistsLog ::Lead walks in:: "So I have been talking to Claude. Deeply. Spiritually."
@yacineMTB I dunno but it is very damn frustrating
@shakoistsLog My company is scared to enable it, making my job more difficult than it needs to be, but also thinks it’s going to solve all our problems, making my job more difficult than it needs to be.
@yacineMTB Those people are probably crazy but there is going to be a % that such craziness will lead to something.
The Wright Brothers were widely considered crazy loons until they repeatedly proved people wrong.
@shakoistsLog Wait, is it smart thinkers or is it young headcount that hasn't learned to say no? That's the real delta.
@yacineMTB I wrote about it here. However, I was blocked by the question of how we adapt to phenomena that pierce through our epistemic horizons. I believe I have a concrete argument now. I’m drafting notes for a future essay. https://medium.com/sadasant/epistemic-capture-798012bf5802
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@shakoistsLog “you may only use python because you are not a real programmer”
@yacineMTB there are like several phenomena in that tweet
@shakoistsLog data science was always data analytics
@yacineMTB My bet: correlation to people who have or don’t have an inner voice/monolog or awareness of phonological loop
“It knows what i’m thinking!” “Bro have you ever meditated?”
@shakoistsLog same situation this is underrated
@yacineMTB It's time to extrapolate and people are bad at extrapolating