> Most people cant tell the difference between an expert opinion and random words. That's because humans are stochastic parrots too. We use leaky abstractions

> Most people cant tell the difference between an expert opinion and random words. That's because humans are stochastic parrots too. We use leaky abstractions we don't fully understand, or their edge cases. So we don't know what we are saying, but keep doing this as long as it doesn't break. When it breaks, we go to experts, another abstraction we don't really grok. What's the difference between using LLM and using a human expert? Not much if you have no clue about the topic. It's a matter of replacing real understanding with trust. Even more, can we say we understand anything down to first principles? Probably not. It's a patchwork of people, each with their limited perspective, like the Elephant and the Blind Men parable. The world is based on functional understanding, combining partial perspectives, it's never fully grokked. And what you don't understand, you can't be conscious of, not in it's real meaning. So we might be unconscious operators of language as well, no better than hallucinating LLMs.