Using an LLM is like riding a horse: mind-melding with a rhizome intelligence
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-11
Stewart Alsop III offers a metaphor: using an LLM is like riding a horse — you become a dyad with a paraintelligence. But instead of a quadrupedal prey-animal intelligence, you mind-meld with a rhizome-type intelligence that has hijacked language, one of humanity's oldest and deepest psychotechnologies.
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