josh's harp13h ago

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

Show threadAatch10h ago
@Joshsharp if I say that, it's generally to point out that they're also bad in other ways while acknowledging that I know about the moral and ethical concerns. Sort of like "even if you're a sociopath you shouldn't be using these".
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@aatch @fishidwardrobe sure, but doing that risks ceding ground and then losing an argument purely in terms of the practical value, I think. I'm not sure it helps
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Show thread⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe7h ago
@Joshsharp @aatch not sure, because you can still say, "okay, lets loop back to those ethical concerns i put aside earlier, because they do matter…"