[Nevermark]

> It’s a story about how humans can’t help personifying language generators,

There should be a word for the misunderstanding that the pervasively common use of anthropomorphic or teleological rhetorical modes to talk about undirected natural or designed for purpose artifacts, actually indicates that anthropomorphic/free-will/teleological assertions or assumptions are being made.

Language-bending tropes, just like tricky-wicked theorems, are the indispensable shortcuts that help us get to a point.

(I think the much more common danger is people over-anthropomorphizing people. I.e. all the stories of clear motivations and intents we tell ourselves, about ourselves and others, and credulously believe, after the fact.)

> and how important context is when using LLMs.

Too true.