Post #3870154

2026-07-16 04:34 UTC

@doctormo@floss.social Whenever people say "it's just a tool," I remember that asbestos is also just a tool.

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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-07-16 04:36

@Cheeseness@mastodon.social @doctormo@floss.social Linus is just a tool too.

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@mushroom_man@infosec.exchange 2026-07-17 16:17

@Cheeseness@mastodon.social at least asbestos arguably accomplished the goal of “let’s stop the entire city from burning down any time there’s a fire anywhere”. Wtf are LLMs achieving that’s worthwhile?

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 08:01

@Cheeseness@mastodon.social @doctormo@floss.social Slavery is just a tool - it was used to produce a toxic product to people who didn't need it for the benefit of a few hyper-rich. No wait that's GenAI.

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@ell1e@hachyderm.io 2026-07-16 13:22

@Cheeseness@mastodon.social @doctormo@floss.social and i don't think he ever really responded to concerns brought up how it's not just a tool: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/fd7dcb35-037c-4e0a-9dfb-5e3d444749d6@horse64.org/ The silence is curious, although I guess he could have just not seen it.

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