Are humans the real stochastic parrots? A viral X thread flips the LLM critique
Paimaamu · x · 2026-09-06
- Paimaamu poses a provocative question: what if human intelligence is basically deterministic, making us the real "stochastic parrots with a non-stochastic core"?
- Anwesh Bhagat, in quote-forwarding the post, argues this is a possibility worth exploring: both human and LLM intelligence need deep investigation to understand the tradeoffs between the two.
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