I think this climate change analogy is interesting, but maybe not in the way they meant. The thing I think is interesting is the trajectory of the 'skeptics' o

I think this climate change analogy is interesting, but maybe not in the way they meant. The thing I think is interesting is the trajectory of the 'skeptics' or 'deniers'. 'Climate change skeptic' used to mean they didn't think a systematic change in climate was happening. Then 'climate change skeptic' shifted to mean that of course a systematic change in climate is happening but it's not due to people. Now 'climate change skeptic' means something more like of course people have caused a systematic change in climate but the woke liberals are trying to use it as a hook to force me to change my way of life and adopt their woke policies of eating bugs and sleeping in pods and make my children change their genders. 'LLM skeptic' is following an interestingly similar path. You can see skeptics like Gary Marcus in particular following the path. Originally 'LLM skeptic' meant that these non-mechanistic non-symbolic word predictors were stochastic parrots or blurry jpegs of the web with not even a theoretical prospect of performing anything like reason or approaching the realm of human cognition. Now 'LLM skeptic' means something more like we shouldn't let these dangerous, unreliable, deceptive, and uninterpretable algorithms become certified as lawyers or doctors and we shouldn't let them hold judicial or political offices.