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Re:OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive by mjr00 on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:29PM (#46769547)
> A great example of this is here: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

This is a piece of science fiction and has its own (inaccurate, IMO) view on how minimum wage McDonald's employees would react to a robot manager. Extrapolating this to real life is naive at best.

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Re:OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive by pixl97 on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:44PM (#46769781)
>Extrapolating this to real life is naive at best.

Why, it's as much of a view of our past adherence to technology without thinking as a well as a view of the future.

"Computer says no" is a saying for a reason.

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Re:OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive by nirav72 on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:39PM (#46770456)
>"Computer says no" is a saying for a reason.

Current LLMs rarely or seldom say no. Unless, they're specifically configured to block out certain types of requests.

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