We care centrally about the thought process behind words—the mental states of the mind and agency that produced the words. If you publish LLM-generated text as though it were written by someone, then you’re making me interact with nothing.
This implies that ad hominem attacks are good epistemology. But I don’t care centrally about the thought process. I care about the meaning of the words. Caring about the process instead of the content is what philosophers do; they study a philosopher instead of a topic. That’s a large part of why they make no progress on any topic.
This implies that ad hominem attacks are good epistemology. But I don’t care centrally about the thought process. I care about the meaning of the words. Caring about the process instead of the content is what philosophers do; they study a philosopher instead of a topic. That’s a large part of why they make no progress on any topic.