Paul SomeoneElse on Nostr: Yes 100%. I am probably a Luddite in the real meaning of that word also. Like I don't ...

Yes 100%.

I am probably a Luddite in the real meaning of that word also.

Like I don't fly in planes anymore. I also don't buy new computers.
I think that people expecting to have a computer in their pocket
at all times is totally wrong. (from that utility POV you mention)
But it's like being a vegan, I don't say it all the time in mixed company.
Like most of the people reading this are on a "pocket computer".
That is not the medium to tell them I don't think people
should have pocket computers. (again because of utility in
a difference sense ... i know the message will be counter
productive. Like vegans learn to not talk about veganism,
because it tends to make people dig into eating meat.)

I am prepared to not use computers anymore.
I am also someone that can use computers as
ethically as possible. (like by not buying new systems.)

(Also I am flawed and like i really want a MNT reform pocket
which would be a new systems. But even that is on the right
side of a lot of things because it is not a mult death corporation.)

I mean I did put my money where my mouth is.
I quit my high paying programming job at NTT because
i couldn't keep working with LLMs and agentic crap.
I will eventually run out of money and lose my house etc.
(I mean i will get a low paying job before that. I am
pretty good at working all kinds of jobs. I just really
like programming.)

About your last point. I think all of that is not real. You
could pay humans to do everything you said instead of
doing that. It would be better on all fronts.
Also like I was saying in another post, using LLMs in
that sense is usually "beauracry management".
Like filling out forms, and knowing which forms to
fill out. That whole systems needs to go away, and
catering to that by providing LLMs to underpriviledged
people is making my brain hurt. Also that is idealist
and in the short term if using an LLM helps an underpriviledged
person I would never tell _them_ to stop.
But in the big picture I won't pretend it's useful.

Utility starts with food water and shelter and well being
from having a good quality of life. Like it's good to remember
those first principles. LLMs as a solution to any of that
again devolves into bearucracy mitifgation, which
first principles would say fight the beauacracy not
prop up the mitigation.