>> However, if you think that LLMs are just stochastic parrots then that probably guides a lot of other arguments and lines of thinking. Making this sort of as

>> However, if you think that LLMs are just stochastic parrots then that probably guides a lot of other arguments and lines of thinking. Making this sort of assumption about your interlocutor deprives the discussion of any kind of interest it would have. It's like we have seen that match before and we know what each side is going to say, so what's the point in debating anything? Everyone's convinced, everyone's stuck in their little corner, and calling each other group-names. More to the point, it makes people reply not to each other, but to the views they assume the other person holds, which never leads to productive conversation, only to confusion and chaos. There has to be a way to debate that doesn't involve picking an enemy to fight.