[toraway]

Using fiction as an interpretive vehicle to explore, challenge and contrast our assumptions and perceptions about our own world isn't even in the same universe as "outsourcing their reasoning to a work of fiction".

"Haha you're basically a human LLM!" is such a weak, boringly robotic rebuttal in nearly any context given how it can be generically applied to literally anything.

[xaoz]

You used a lot of fancy words to describe something very simple and not very smart. Reading a story about what could be does not necessarily have any predictive power at all over complex real world systems.

[renewiltord]

Pretty sure this is the prologue to The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster where everyone outsources their decisions to the Machine and communicates second-hand ideas.