Eli Zaretskii presses Human Emacs on claimed LLM harms
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Emacs co-maintainer Eli Zaretskii responded on the emacs-devel mailing list to the Human Emacs project, asking what specifically it means by the harms of LLMs and why this is relevant to writing Emacs code. The Human Emacs project previously said LLMs would "fatally" damage community unity and trust, and threatened to fork Emacs if its views were not accepted. Zaretskii's questions target precisely this claim.
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Responding to Eli Zaretskii's question on the emacs-devel mailing list about which harms LLMs pose to Emacs, the author argues that LLMs exploit the brain's laziness and addictive tendencies by offering ready-made solutions instead of advice, encouraging dependency and undermining focused thinking and learning. The author rejects the calculator analogy, contending that LLMs can make people feel they need not understand anything, and concludes that no productivity gains justify this loss of self-reliance.
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