Gerald Monroe comments on Why do we assume there is a “real” shoggoth behind the LLM? Why not masks all the way down?

[Gerald Monroe]

I think the issue with the “shoggoth theory” is implicitly we are claiming a complex alien creature. Something with cognition, goals, etc.

Yet we know it doesn’t need that and a complex alien mind will consume weights that could go into reducing error instead. So it’s very unlikely.