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How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But your credentials worship fits right in with this community. worship is an extremely strong word for a one-sentence casual comment. but yeah, by default i will file anyone with a 4.0 from a top 10 school in the "brighter than me" category. is that worship?
Is a formal sentence which uses capital letters more sincere in its beliefs? You can perfectly well believe that thinking that the echelons of academic success is a frictionless gold sieve is just a milquetoast belief. Believing that your beliefs are milquetoast are most often integral to said beliefs.
...what point are you trying to make? you wrote a bunch of words, but they dont seem to be an attempt at communicating anything. certainly not anything that contributes to a conversation.
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#193> named after the first professional woman hired by the firm in 1945 Going out of their way to find a woman's name for an AI assistant and bragging about it is not as empowering as the creators probably thought in their heads.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is a formal sentence which uses capital letters more sincere in its beliefs? You can perfectly well believe that thinking that the echelons of academic success is a frictionless gold sieve is just a milquetoast belief. Believing that your beliefs are milquetoast are most often integral to said beliefs.
...what point are you trying to make? you wrote a bunch of words, but they dont seem to be an attempt at communicating anything. certainly not anything that contributes to a conversation.
I'm not the brightest tool in the shed.
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One thing I've learned recently is a lot guys (like here) have been out here reading each word of a given company's tech blog, closely parsing each sentence construction.. I really cant imagine being even concious of the prose for something like this. A corporate blog, to me, has some base level of banality to it. It's like reading a cereal box and getting angry at the lack of nuance. Like who cares? Is there really…
I've picked up reading again over the last year or so! Maybe, if anything, that is why I feel so angry. Writing and reading are how we communicate thoughts and ideas between people, humans, at scale. A grand fantasy novel evokes a thirst for adventure, a romance evokes a yearning for true love. What makes me angry, is to use the feelings we associate with this process and disingenuously pretend that there is a human…
Ah well I guess you are on the right side of this either way! No need to even explain. It seems that people really really do care, and its wrong to say maybe its ok that they don't have to in this case. I guess I get it, I am generally more wrong the right anyway, and yes, at the very least, I am clearly in some way sub literate and uncritical as a reader, who can't tell the difference anyway. Not really the guy to be giving his opinion here. I will go find some slop to enjoy while the adults figure out the important stuff! Thanks for teaching me the lesson here.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, if you tell me that I need to do X, then I can make choices on how to accomplish X, that I am no longer an agent as a human? You're trying to redefine long standing definitions for God knows what reason.
The difference is that you are a sentient person who decides to follow my instructions, not just a tool that I use.
The idea of "sentience" here could be replaced with "a soul" or "magic thinking powers" or almost anything else. It's an undefinable concept.
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Couple of things to add: McKinsey has a weird structure where there are too many cooks in the kitchen. Everybody there is reviewed on client impact, meaning it ends up being an everybody-for-themselves situation. So as a developer you have little guidance (in fact, you're still being reviewed on client impact, even if you have 0 client exposure). Then a (Senior) Partner comes in with this idea (that will get them a g…
Why would anyone work there, then, unless that's the only place they could get hired as a dev? And if the latter is the case, then that sort of stamps the case closed from the get-go...
Its the most political possible version of being a dev. Out of college, the highest ranking person at a tech company who knows you are is maybe a staff. At McKinsey, you regularly meet execs, boards, etc. Plus great pay, travel, insane perks. I didn't pay for a personal flight for years I had so many points.
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I mean - do you have the macid's of McKinsey's corporate devices?
After a minute near one of their offices I do. Macs are either randomized per session, which makes filtering on them pointless, or they are not and still broadcast making them non secure and easily spoofed. Relying on mac filtering is usually only an audit checkbox to check. There is a reason 3 letter agencies used to use them to track people as they are really easy to get and track (until they got randomized by phon…
I see what you mean, but then an authentication step?
Re: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform
#200Some insider knowledge: Lilli was, at least a year ago, internal only. VPN access, SSO, all the bells and whistles, required. Not sure when that changed. McKinsey requires hiring an external pen-testing company to launch even to a small group of coworkers. I can forgive this kind of mistake on the part of the Lilli devs. A lot of things have to fail for an "agentic" security company to even find a public endpoint, mu…
is this the same at quantumblack? They at least give the impression their assets on Brix are somewhat up to date and uesable
QuantumBlack is synonymous -- it's where all of McKinsey's AI expertise got reorganized these days, anyone working on this tool was likely doing it on a rotation in between client engagements under "QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey"