tanteFeb 20

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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Show threadFrisk Fyrste Tofty for HelvedeFeb 20

@tante I, for one, enjoyed the write-up.

As you, I do plenty of things that I either cannot morally or ethically defend or simply am ignorant of the harms of.

For other technology, I am either pressured to use it (by government or similar institutions) or I can at least use it 'for good' (facilitating some other good - in current case, student administration) and also make a living.

For LLMs, I fail to see the redeeming qualities that make the compromise 'worth it'. It's all nett negatives.

Show threadFrisk Fyrste Tofty for HelvedeFeb 20

@tante My point is that LLMs 'try' (and very often fail) to solve the wrong problem.

Writing all the boilerplate -> should be solved by better frameworks.
Spell check -> I think this is already invented.
Summarize long texts -> Executive summaries.
Produce (verbose) text -> Writing in my view is as much thinking as it is writing - skipping the thinking part is counter-productive.

Show threadMathias Panzenböck

@tofticles @tante Finally someone else says this about frameworks and boilerplate!

(Btw. the Android grammar check wants me to write boilerplateS.)

Feb 22 at 1:42amWeb