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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 21:11:59 JST tante

   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.

   https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

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     Frisk Fyrste Tofty for Helvede (tofticles@helvede.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 21:12:38 JST Frisk Fyrste Tofty for Helvede

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     @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.

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     Frisk Fyrste Tofty for Helvede (tofticles@helvede.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 21:12:39 JST Frisk Fyrste Tofty for Helvede

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     @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.

     Rich Felker repeated this.