llm discourse, not too heavy but we're all tired
So regardless of all the other reasons to treat it like the plague, one reason I could never use LLMs is I'm an iconoclast. Card carrying and proud, it means I reserve the possibility* of being correct on topics that the mainstream gets wrong, but it means I am maybe more dependent than average on pushback from smart people with different blind spots than I have.LLMs are, for the most part, configured to be the opposite of this steelman grindset. The sycophancy can be obvious, but it can also be subtle. I am the right neurotype to be separated from the herd by predators. Self-awareness about that is self-defense. I've seen people like me go off deep ends where, past the event horizon, "nobody understands me except the bobot." I've seen enough cautionary tales to not be one myself.
*not something I mistake for a guarantee, in case that somehow wasn't obvious from the rest of the post
