I'm actually nervous about the opposite case -- "I relied an an LLM to generate the email where I said I approved of something, and didn't read it closely enough".
My strong feeling here is the same as if the boss tasked an underling to write something: if it goes out under your name, you are responsible for it. Full stop.
I learned that email is always written for the permanent record when I was a baby lawyer on an internal investigation of a corporation for alleged corrupt practices related to overseas sales. It really changes how you think about the medium. I agree it’s not necessarily a change for the better if your organization is doing its thinking in email.
I've been telling people for 27 years that emails are postcards carved in granite - visible to everyone for all time. I thought it was obvious, but apparently not.
Related to your final image, I have long believed that the best way to fix political dysfunction in America is to bring back the infamous "smoke-filled back room."
I like this. I have long thought that for all that we value transparency, it is also good sometimes to be able to have a back room (after hours pub) meeting where everyone can say anything without worry. This includes not only brainstorming, but arguing out details of an eventual deal.
In the spirit of taking metaphors literally, I like to think that Beer's quote implies good management requires some degree of intoxication as necessary from the managers
I jest, but Beer is no stranger to considering the psychological strain in decision-making, so perhaps there's something there
Liked: "always to take jokes seriously and metaphors literally."
Exactly.
Liked: "Maybe Stafford Beer was on to something when he argued that the key tool of management cybernetics was a room full of cigars, comfortable armchairs and whisky."
Unfortunately, what we got instead was P.T. Barnum selling golden tickets to "The Egress" in plain sight to his willing believers, over and over.
Maybe society wasn't designed to withstand attacks like this. It was designed to withstand attacks by the predictable behaviors of the usual suspects, not a chaos monkey wandering around setting things on fire. No designer can anticipate every Whac-A-Mole thing that such a one might do.
What happens when the people don't want government, but entertainment?
"This way to the spectacle!"
No matter how bats--t crazy things seem now, don't worry, they can get bats--t crazier.
"Report: scientists still unsure if world will end in a bang, or a whimper."
I'm actually nervous about the opposite case -- "I relied an an LLM to generate the email where I said I approved of something, and didn't read it closely enough".
My strong feeling here is the same as if the boss tasked an underling to write something: if it goes out under your name, you are responsible for it. Full stop.
I learned that email is always written for the permanent record when I was a baby lawyer on an internal investigation of a corporation for alleged corrupt practices related to overseas sales. It really changes how you think about the medium. I agree it’s not necessarily a change for the better if your organization is doing its thinking in email.
I've been telling people for 27 years that emails are postcards carved in granite - visible to everyone for all time. I thought it was obvious, but apparently not.
Related to your final image, I have long believed that the best way to fix political dysfunction in America is to bring back the infamous "smoke-filled back room."
Was this the room you had in mind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI5B7jLWZUc
I like this. I have long thought that for all that we value transparency, it is also good sometimes to be able to have a back room (after hours pub) meeting where everyone can say anything without worry. This includes not only brainstorming, but arguing out details of an eventual deal.
In the spirit of taking metaphors literally, I like to think that Beer's quote implies good management requires some degree of intoxication as necessary from the managers
I jest, but Beer is no stranger to considering the psychological strain in decision-making, so perhaps there's something there
Liked: "always to take jokes seriously and metaphors literally."
Exactly.
Liked: "Maybe Stafford Beer was on to something when he argued that the key tool of management cybernetics was a room full of cigars, comfortable armchairs and whisky."
Unfortunately, what we got instead was P.T. Barnum selling golden tickets to "The Egress" in plain sight to his willing believers, over and over.
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/mark-twain/article-abstract/16/1/47/210763/This-Way-to-the-Egress-The-Humbug-of-Barnum-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Maybe society wasn't designed to withstand attacks like this. It was designed to withstand attacks by the predictable behaviors of the usual suspects, not a chaos monkey wandering around setting things on fire. No designer can anticipate every Whac-A-Mole thing that such a one might do.
What happens when the people don't want government, but entertainment?
"This way to the spectacle!"
No matter how bats--t crazy things seem now, don't worry, they can get bats--t crazier.
"Report: scientists still unsure if world will end in a bang, or a whimper."