Blindsight moment: Aliens use EMF to kill crew member dismissing their LLM as 'stochastic parrot'
jd_pressman · x · 2026-08-22
A user shared a memorable scene from the sci-fi novel Blindsight: aliens deploy an LLM to communicate with the human crew. When the humans insist it's a 'stochastic parrot,' the aliens use their EMF psychic powers to read their minds, identify a specific crew member who holds this belief, call her an idiot for it, and kill her instantly, while everyone else pretends it didn't happen.
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