What's interesting is the speaker in the poem is predicting their own inevitable ("with a sigh") reality distortion field, i.e. is being cynical about themself. So it is a poem about self-serving bias, despite the fact that we are perfectly capable of checking ourselves. Our biases aren't entirely subconscious. We can be willful about it, willfully look the other way so our biases remain "subconscious" and thus not our responsibility, making it easier for our conscious side to convince itself that its self-esteem is legit.
And then there is a meta-confirmation of this bias: The way people commonly interpret this poem. If Frost had that in mind all along, then he/the poem is genius.
I think it depends on how it is done, and the kind of ICs you have on the team. It can come off as micromanagement, which may work well enough if you have not-so-competent ICs, but will backfire if you have talented ones.
Combined with the willingness to exploit those two things to hoard as much as you can, without qualms about taking advantage of cheap goods and cheap labor even from those who work as hard as you but get less because of economic/power/freedom asymmetries, without concern for the Mathews Effect (that wealth breeds wealth, that poverty breeds poverty)...
If your are willing to look at capitalism and free markets objectively[1], as just algorithms rather than moral systems (i.e. private property is part of an algorithm, not an "inalienable human right"), and you realize that it isn't moral that one's share of the pie be determined by the free market, that it isn't moral that the value of a person be determined by the free market, that it isn't moral to leverage your advantage or even hard work to grab a much bigger share of the pie even as others who because of birth circumstance get the thinnest slice or no slice at all, that it isn't moral to enjoy the fruits of cheap labor do to the desperation of the aforementioned, that it isn't moral to take advantage of your other advantages birth circumstances (e.g. being born within the borders of a wealthy country that keeps out those born in poor ones) to grab more, then you will find that material success (success as defined by capitalism) that is complicit in all the aforementioned does screw someone over.
Such a person will have a different definition of success: A life of contribution to the community done out of love and morality, not a coerced transaction leveraging one's advantages against those with less.
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[1]: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" ~ Upton Sinclair
You are implicitly anthropomorphizing LLMs by implying that they (can) have intent in the first place. They have no intent, so can't lie or make a claim or confabulate. They are just a very complex black box that takes input and spits output. Searle's Chinese Room metaphor applies here.
The difference is that you are capable of reflection and self-awareness, in this particular case that you understand nothing about dressage and your judgements would be a farce.
One of the counter arguments to "LLMs aren't really AI" is: "Well, maybe the human brain works much like an LLM. So we are stupid in the same way LLMs are. We just have more sophisticated LLMs in our heads, or better training data. In other other words, if LLMs aren't intelligent, then neither are we.
The counter to this counter is: Can one build an LLM that can identify hallucinations, the way we do? That can classify its own output as good or shitty?
This dynamic far outweighs factors like moral and intellectual honesty. Humans want to be a part of a tribe and be respected within it far more than they want to do the right thing or be honest.
The period of fastest growth of Christianity was a period of Christian violence and darkness: the Crusades, The Inquisition, Christian colonialism and imperialism, the Dark Ages.
The fastest growing religion now is Islam, which is in many ways following the earlier playbook of Christianity.
Whereas Buddhism, the real kind, not the new agey California kind that is centered on self, or the popular Asian kind that is as close to Buddhist principles as Evangelicals are to Jesus's teachings, has nearly vanished from its place of birth, India, suppressed in favor of Islam or Hinduism, whichever the rulers of India favored at the time, and is a rarity everywhere else on the planet.
If any religion is COOPERATE-BOT, it is Buddhism, the real kind.
One might say the same of founders, but with respect to the org they are a part of: society. Founder? Nope, professional money extractor.
Anyone who's critical of, which is to say critically aware of, the underlying nature of capitalism will get what I'm saying.
Elon Musk (who proofread PG's post) is a master at extracting money from society and its government, while extracting labor from workers for minimal pay.[1] Zuck is a master at extracting money from society (by maximally playing to people's addictive tendencies and selling their attention to companies who want to extract more!). These types are driven by money and power, not by bettering society, though as masters of extraction they are masters of selling themselves as the latter.
Compare them to people who are driven not by money but by a desire to contribute: Albert Einstein, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds. If capitalism/markets were efficient, Albert Einstein would have been the richest person in the world, not Musk. The inventor of the web would be worth a lot more than the inventor of a web app that prey's upon people's addictive tendencies. Linus Torvalds' baby runs the internet (and android phones) yet his net worth is... Remember how Microsoft said open source was un-American, akin to communism? Now Microsoft is a master at extracting money from open source.
Capitalism's measure of net worth (money in the bank) does not correlate to actual net worth (positive impact on society).
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[1]: btw, how is the Founder Mode he instituted at what was formally known as Twitter working out?
Dynamic field theory provides an explanation for how the brain gives rise to behavior via the coordinated activity of populations of neurons. These neural populations, depicted in the dynamic field simulator below, make local decisions about behaviorally relevant events in the world. For instance, move your mouse above the blue line in the simulator and watch what happens. When you move your mouse high enough, the group of neurons form a local decision—a peak of activation—detecting the location of the interesting event (your mouse movement). When you move to another position along the line, a different local decision forms. Activation patterns in other dynamic fields might be sensitive to other types of information such as color, shape, or even the emotional valence of an event.