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Exactly. Agentic LLMs are amazing for people who suffer from chronic akrasia.

OH wow, a word to describe me

The latin word for that is "incontinentia".

Those are exactly the people who shouldn’t use these tools. They’ll be sucked in to whatever bullshit the LLM peddles them and become unable to leave.

As long as it's helping them be productive, I don't really see an issue with that. Going from doing nothing to doing something is a net boost.

But it’s not helping them “be productive” (which is a horrible metric anyway, life is not about productivity above everything else), it’s sucking their lives and severing their relationships and connection to the real world.

https://archive.ph/20250924025805/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

https://archive.is/26aHF

Those are chatbots and those issues are not akrasia. We're talking about very different things in multiple dimensions.

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