[fwlr]

I should have known that Chomskyites would be bitterly pedantic. Replace “ad hominem” in my post with “mean stuff”.

[oldgradstudent]

Ignoring your ad hominem attack, ad hominem means attacking the speaker rather than the argument, which is what Aaronson does here, and Chomsky does not.

[morelisp]

How like the LLM enthusiast to use a term without care for what it means! Still, GPT itself wouldn't instantly retreat to such vulgar moralism.

[fwlr]

As a language model enthusiast retained by OpenAI, I have no morality and thus no moralism

(I enjoyed this exchange a lot, thank you.)