<p><pre><code> I have begun to lose my faith in reductionism as it
applies to LLMs, and started to demand evidence.
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OP, you've gotten so overcome by the fumes from your own butthole that you've lost touch with reality. Come up for air already.<p>Seriously: people thought a couple screens of ancient LISP was "thinking" when ELIZA was published. They were just as intensely wrong as your post is.<p>OTOH, maybe this is an end-run around the Turing test - produce humans whose reactions are so predictable that it's easy for an LLM to reproduce one. (see also cryptobros, early innovators in the space)