@mikemccaffrey@neurodifferent.me
2026-03-20 05:04 UTC
Replies (4)
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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange 2026-03-20 19:59
@mikemccaffrey @EmilyEnough Good point.
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@gourd@indiepocalypse.social 2026-03-21 19:52
@mikemccaffrey @EmilyEnough The "you can write natural language queries" idea has always gotten a response from me of "why the fuck would I want to do that?" Standard search engine queries and stuff are so much easier.
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@paco@infosec.exchange 2026-03-23 10:45
@mikemccaffrey Neurotypicality is just one of many biases that LLMs amplify. It also amplifies the latent racism, sexism, ableism, Western ideologies that dominate English language writing online, etc. But until I read this post by @EmilyEnough , I didn’t realise what a neurodivergent torture device LLMs are. I think not enough has been written on that subject yet. My adult son is neurodivergent and an awesome programmer. He also hates LLMs with a passion. I’m now seeing how this all comes together.
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2026-03-23 11:43
@mikemccaffrey @EmilyEnough there’s a related situation (without all the other downsides): I often take scans of public domain sheet music and turn them into digital musical engravings (which you can then play, print, convert into Braille music, easily arrange, etc). In the beginning, I thought it would be easier to take a digital score of the same piece from someone else and just fix bugs and remove and add things until it represents what I need (they are often minor arrangements), even wrote a cleanup XSLT to remove hidden "gems". Turns out that looking through what others did is just so much harder that it’s faster to type in the whole thing from scratch (and I could use someone after me to look it over for my typos anyway in both cases).