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by usefulcat 251 days ago
> Using emotive, anthropomorphic language about software tool is unhelpful, in this case at least.

Ok, I'm with you so far..

> Better to think of it as a mentally disturbed minor...

Proceeds to use emotive, anthropomorphic language about a software tool..

Or perhaps that is point and I got whooshed. Either way I found it humorous!

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the whoosh is that they are describing the human operator, a "mentally disturbed minor" and not the LLM. the human has the agency and specifically bypassed the guardrails
You're quite right, I totally misread that. Thank you for the clarification.