RE: https://hachyderm.io/@phillmv/116374969941559197

@phillmv Quoting you. What is there to talk about after we take all of that into consideration?

PS: I think it is hard to talk about because there's nothing to talk about besides special pleading.

@yoasif the past three-ish years it was extremely impressive but also kind of useless.

the harms obviously outweighed the benefit.

now however it caught up to (some) of the hype: i’m feeling excited about the kinds of projects i’ll be able to deliver with good quality.

@yoasif i’m happy to engage on the harms.

broadly speaking i think harms currently outweighs benefits; as of today if i could wish the technology away i think i would. as it is we need to regulate it more.

that said, does how other people use the tool impact the morality of how i use it? i don’t know. i’m not sending people spam.

i don’t really believe in intellectual property so we can skip “theft”.

this mostly leaves us with environmental concerns and social upheaval.

as a programmer it feels hypocritical to wax and wane about automation being inherently bad; automating tasks has been my whole career.

environment is kind of the strongest angle, but that’s downstream of not having clean energy. if you could built it all on wind and solar power then it’d be OK