@thirstybear Surely there are two things going on here...

a) it's tone deaf and a big failure to read the room to come in with a 'but fire is used for x' argument.

b it still being true that @scalzi.com (love the work) is making a poor argument or deliberately conflating 'fire' with 'arson'.

I use LLMs daily for productive (daily janitorial) work no human should be burdened with. I try to be thoughtful about it and get the LLM itself to script alternatives to mindlessly burning processing cycles... etc.

There are arguments to say that despite this, it's wasteful and there are alternatives (none of which I can afford btw), but this is a complex argument.

There is solid discussion of LLMs vs ML vs just complex algorithms in this thread... We need to have these discussions lest the LLM bros win the day, and we have them all post hoc.