@MrComputerScience
@daliasCassandrich
@Em0nM4stodonEm
Hi! Disabled neurodivergent person here.
I have psoriatic arthritis, which has destroyed many of the joints in my hands and feet and some days makes it painful to even wash my hands or put on clothes.
It also means I get debilitating brain fog occasionally, which makes it hard to think.
I am autistic, and I have ADHD as well.
I am a sysadmin/DevOps Engineer who routinely codes, writes documentation, manages projects, and plenty of other things where I need my hands and strong cognitive capabilities.
This argument is garbage.
It's an attempt to use disability and neurodivergence as a "get-out-of-ethics-free" card and shirk moral responsibility and is incredibly slimy. It also asserts that mediocre (at best) short term improvements gained by neurodivergent/disabled folks outweigh devastating worldwide catastrophic consequences for EVERYONE, including the disabled person.
I realize you didn't come up with the argument, and it's been making the rounds quite a bit, so I am not calling you slimy.
No disabled person I know is magically made more able by this shit, and you better believe that the disabled folks who have lost their jobs due to AI layoffs are not glad they have a roided out Clippy to save the day.
Last and most importantly -- Em specifically says "AI-generated."
That is not a blanket condemnation of AI, that is a criticism of a specific form of AI, GenAI.