As far as I can tell, the shoggoth analogy just has high memetic fitness. It doesn’t contain any particular insight about the nature of LLMs. No need to twist ourselves into a pretzel trying to backwards-rationalize it into something deep.
I agree that’s basically what happened, I just wanted to cleave off one way in which the shoggoth analogy breaks down!
It sounds like a dangerous meme then since more than a few folks have spent real effort sharing and discussing it.
As far as I can tell, the shoggoth analogy just has high memetic fitness. It doesn’t contain any particular insight about the nature of LLMs. No need to twist ourselves into a pretzel trying to backwards-rationalize it into something deep.
I agree that’s basically what happened, I just wanted to cleave off one way in which the shoggoth analogy breaks down!
It sounds like a dangerous meme then since more than a few folks have spent real effort sharing and discussing it.