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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) · 8w
2- Righteousness. People do have legitimate needs, often unmet needs, and the synthetic text extruding machines can *look like* a solution. But just because the problems are real doesn't mean the solu...
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3- Whataboutism. This is used to brush off concerns about the externtalities of these systems. You eat meat, you fly on airplanes, etc, etc, how dare you talk about the impacts of data centers?
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) · 8w
4- Tone policing. People who are trying to occupy that uncomfortable, untenable space will claim that clear statements of harms/strong principles against use of these systems will "turn others away" as if the centrists are the ones actually pushing for more ethical practice. But this "other people ...