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im increasingly an llm metaphor maximalist. anthropomorphization, spicy autocomplete, shoggoth with a smiley, stochastic parrot... it's all kinda right and kinda wrong. we dont have many good ways of understanding what these are and metaphoric (even exaggerated) comparisons help us grasp them!

I think @hikikomorphism.bsky.social "text elemental" is the best general metaphor I've seen: from convo with friend "good is because it captures the notion of something that is animate, but not conscious so much as an expression of the fundamental nature of the substance of which it is composed"