I sort of agree that LLMs are somewhat incidental to the point of the post ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DDG2Tf2sqc8rTWRk3/llm-generated-text-is-not-testimony?commentId=d5gtpsRzESm4dNxBZ ). I also agree that utterances today are very often failing to be testimony in the way I discuss, and that this fact is very important. A main aim of this essay is to help us think about that phenomenon.
I sort of agree that LLMs are somewhat incidental to the point of the post ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DDG2Tf2sqc8rTWRk3/llm-generated-text-is-not-testimony?commentId=d5gtpsRzESm4dNxBZ ). I also agree that utterances today are very often failing to be testimony in the way I discuss, and that this fact is very important. A main aim of this essay is to help us think about that phenomenon.