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Re: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

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john_strinlai wrote: post #159
anonMcKinsey wrote: post #158

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99.9% of the world doesn't live in the US with a 4.0 GPA from a top ten university. They're not very bright, most of them. But they're very hard workers and high achievers. They stay for the resume candy or the health care.

> [...] US with a 4.0 GPA from a top ten university. They're not very bright, most of them. the top students from the top ten universities in the US produce... mostly not very bright people? this is getting even stranger to the rest of us plebians. sometimes i am left in awe of how different my world is from some of you here

"US produce... mostly not very bright people?"

The top universities are not setup to mold intellectually rigorous and curious people. It's setup to make hard working, and increasingly sycophant men.

My lab mate is a former drug addict with two years of art school. Easily more intellectually curious than anyone I met at McKinsey.

Re: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

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Post by cindyllm »

anonMcKinsey wrote: post #161
john_strinlai wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> [...] US with a 4.0 GPA from a top ten university. They're not very bright, most of them. the top students from the top ten universities in the US produce... mostly not very bright people? this is getting even stranger to the rest of us plebians. sometimes i am left in awe of how different my world is from some of you here

"US produce... mostly not very bright people?" The top universities are not setup to mold intellectually rigorous and curious people. It's setup to make hard working, and increasingly sycophant men. My lab mate is a former drug addict with two years of art school. Easily more intellectually curious than anyone I met at McKinsey.

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Re: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

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Post by skeeter2020 »

munk-a wrote: post #135
yard2010 wrote: post #126

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I'm far from being an expert, but it sounds like this company needs some consultancy.

Can McKinsey fund McKinsey by consulting for McKinsey? Could we oroborus corporate consulting so that those consultants could be trapped in a loop and those of us doing useful work wouldn't need to interact with them anymore?

Have you seen current AI deals? This IS the future, but so much more efficient than requiring OpenAI, NVidia, MS, Amazon, etc. all be involved.

Re: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

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Post by keybored »

john_strinlai wrote: post #159
anonMcKinsey wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99.9% of the world doesn't live in the US with a 4.0 GPA from a top ten university. They're not very bright, most of them. But they're very hard workers and high achievers. They stay for the resume candy or the health care.

> [...] US with a 4.0 GPA from a top ten university. They're not very bright, most of them. the top students from the top ten universities in the US produce... mostly not very bright people? this is getting even stranger to the rest of us plebians. sometimes i am left in awe of how different my world is from some of you here

How different the world is? But your credentials worship fits right in with this community.

Ideologically aligned if nothing else.

Well we can all at least imagine being some 4.0 Ivy League dude who only interacts with 4.0 Ivy League dudes. He’s not going to think that everyone he interacts with range from merely brilliant to the most studious-enlightened hardworking top of the morning fellow (or whatever adjectives to use). He’s gonna think that some of them are idiots. It’s only human.

Re: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

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Post by skeeter2020 »

steve1977 wrote: post #128
operatingthetan wrote: post #115

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As an ex-consultant: consulting at that level is kind of a grift. They over-promise and under-deliver as SOP. It's ripe for AI disruption, whatever that looks like.

Ideally, executives will get replaced by AI soon. Which should actually be easier than engineers. That will kind of solve the consulting problem automatically.

This would be terrible for McKinsey as they sell exclusively through executives who then punch all their wisdoms down on the plebs
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