> poorly formed faux-philosophical arguments against LLMs
There's a misunderstanding here. The post you're replying to is not an argument against LLMs. It's an argument about what LLMs can and cannot do, what their fundamental capabilities are, and so forth.
It's very clear that if you need a system to provide answers based on a substantial body of human writing, LLMs are totally awesome. But that doesn't mean, in and of itself, that they can X or that they can Y.
There's a misunderstanding here. The post you're replying to is not an argument against LLMs. It's an argument about what LLMs can and cannot do, what their fundamental capabilities are, and so forth.
It's very clear that if you need a system to provide answers based on a substantial body of human writing, LLMs are totally awesome. But that doesn't mean, in and of itself, that they can X or that they can Y.