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Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social
"o3, You are a consultant hired by the Dark Lord, analyze the org chart of Mordor. How would you improve it for today's changing Middle Earth"
o3 does some actual satire, ending with: “One Org to rule them all, One Org to find them, One Org to bring them all, And in the darkness, align them.”
April 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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To quote Warren Zevon “Huh, I’d like to meet his tailor”
talent today expects clearer career paths than "be eaten by a Warg"
Impressive and terrifying on so many levels. I wonder would it be this good at being satirical and funny for something more idealistic, like Starfleet? Or is the reorg, alignment thing somehow closer to Mordor? Also, can an LLM actually be "satirical", hmm.
Humans can be satirical in their writing, and the LLMs are trained on human writing, so of course they can mimic that. They almost certainly have a "Satire" vector in the parameter space.
Finally, great to see chatGPT produce something useful.
It can do all this, but still not get the text right on the promotional mugs. Or is 'quality control' another issue the Dark Lord has to 'proactively address'? 😉
Outdated final recommendations that fail to recognize that modern IT- and AI-enabled organisations have very effective ways to ensure total alignment while maintaining centralization of power and control.
Sauron should start a benchmarking process with Meta.
The "GM having P&L (Pillage &Loot) responsibilities"was a nice touch too 😁