Please Stop Saying Airplanes 'Fly': They Only Exploit Aerodynamic Regularities
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-30
A viral AI-circle satire: applied to planes, the classic 'stochastic parrot' critique of LLMs falls apart — 'stop saying airplanes fly, they are only exploiting aerodynamic regularities to produce flight-like behavior.' A reductio ad absurdum of dismissive takes on large language models.
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