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I don't think I've ever seen a more clichéd argument against LLMs than "some people in the world suffer from capitalism".


That is not my argument against LLMs. Please don't put words in my mouth. My actual argument against LLMs is that:

1. They will replace so many jobs en masse that they will cause a large loss of meaning in many lives, that they will concentrate wealth in the hands of the tech companies, that they will enable even more efficient propaganda, and that they will be used as a drug to distract the populace from increasingly destructive practices enacted by global capitalism

2. LLMs will isolate us by providing more and more services that once were provided by humans. AI therapists, girlfriends/boyfriends, solvers of problems that we once turned to our fellow human being to solve. This vast increase in individual autonomy, pushed by psychological manipuluation to THINK that we need such autonomy, will destroy more local communities and connections that people have with each other. In conclusion we will become isolated and miserable, relying completely on the machine to keep our lives balanced without any autonomy to seek out our own way of doing things.

Is that still cliche enough for you, or would you like to make more comments in bad faith about my position?


I think you are absolutely correct in your assessment and I think there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it.


>That is not my argument against LLMs. Please don't put words in my mouth.

That was the most people could read thought from your previous comments, now that I make you notice that, you wrote some actual arguments, even though I do not share your doomerish vision of the future.


Don’t put thoughts in my head. I could understand his comments perfectly.




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