Mastodawn

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful

https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

Acting ethically in an imperfect world

Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

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Sibrosan

@tante Using LLM's for various tasks may be convenient, but it may also put you at a disadvantage because you lose the ability to do those things by yourself.

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barefootstache Feb 21

@sibrosan this reminds me of Ship of Theseus as in every time one outsources the art to a tool there will become a point where one does not have the craft of the art anymore.

In this case, the art of grammar checking and the tool being a LLM. By constantly using a LLM to do the grammar checking, one is replacing the art of grammar checking slowly through time to the point that nothing on the original art of grammar checking is equivalent to the current version.

Note that argument applies just as well to non-LLM grammar checkers…