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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:12:14 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115883445350346364
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1. To sum up, then. The Machine is a myth. The bad things in our society are the produets of bad systems, bad decisions and conceivably bad people, in various combinations. Machines per se are essentially neutral, though some machines can be built which are bad indeed, such as bombs, guns and death-camps.
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  I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths. I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:25:37 JST GabeMoralesVR
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  @thomasfuchs none of your posts even sniff the fact that they're absolutely horrendous for the environment.
  
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  Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:25:37 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️
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  @GabeMoralesVR the environmental aspect is real, however compared to how other human endeavors (e.g. agriculture or transportation) wreck havoc with the environment it’s more of a distraction from problems it has directly rather than indirectly
  
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