josh's harp1d 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 threadjosh's harp1d ago
My dude, if there are obvious moral and ethical implications, how are you able to "put them aside" so easily? I just don't get it
Show threadViraptor23h ago
@Joshsharp
Honest answer: The same way that I'm writing this on a phone which both in the production process and as a software-social ecosystem has obvious moral and ethical implications. Or how I use retirement investment funds which likely prop up the price of many terrible corporations. Nothing's perfect and we make imperfect choices of balancing comfort of life with the world impact every single day.
Show threadjosh's harp
@viraptor I get that, but "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" doesn't mean we should just give up
Mar 21 at 4:59amWeb
Show threadViraptor16h ago
@Joshsharp
Nor am I suggesting giving up. I'm just saying I make the imperfect choices using those systems for building something for the community I'm involved in or improving work at my clinic. That's my balance. Less putting aside, more definitely being aware of it.