I used to be wary of the Scantron style standardized tests administered by schools. We were informed that they would be graded by computer, and of all my classm

I used to be wary of the Scantron style standardized tests administered by schools. We were informed that they would be graded by computer, and of all my classmates I knew best how tolerant of mistakes computers were. Especially since we were given contradictory goals of "erase mistakes completely" and "make dark marks". I do not feel I can "co-reason" better with a cleverer version of Dissociated Press at all, because Dissociated Press isn't reasoning. It's the neurotypicals who believe that an LLM actually thinks, while I'm on to what it's really doing: It's statistically predicting the next thing to say given what has been said before. I have better things to do with my time than to attempt to goad DP into producing some output I like based on rough guesses of how it operates. I'd much rather train and use the neural network between my ears to work on interesting problems. At least I have access to some of its internal state and it doesn't live in Microsoft's cloud.