Yet another opinion on LLMs · Hasufell's blog

reuben: > I personally don’t think it’s a good idea to avoid anthropomorphic language. It’s useful (not just for whimsical purposes) to say things like “Claude thought I meant “linear” in the sense of linear algebra, but I actually meant it in the sense of linear logic, let me clarify that. I would say that having beliefs and reasoning is (sometimes) a good effective description of what a complicated computer system is doing. That’s a good example of precisely what I try to avoid. But Dijkstra has covered this topic comprehensively. I don’t need to reiterate it.