"Stochastic parrot" called lazy: describing a mechanism isn't understanding it
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-17
A follow-up in the LLM reductionism debate: "stochastic parrot" is an intellectually lazy description. The author's analogy: "You are electrochemical meat; CPUs are switches; LLMs predict tokens" — you've described the substrate/mechanism and learned absolutely nothing about the computation or capabilities it can implement.
Related event: Debate flares over reductionist claims that LLMs 'just predict tokens'(2 posts)→
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