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Someone else took me to task for

2025-12-19 01:50:03.12537+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Someone else took me to task for describing anthropomorphizing LLMs as developmental disability, and as someone formally diagnosed with learning disabilities in the '80s, I'm actually angry about it.

If an adult honestly ascribes personhood to a stuffed animal, we talk about intellectual challenges, but when they do it to an LLM, framing it like that's offensive.

Like my inability to mask and say "oh, yeah, that's totally a sane thing" is the problem.

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#Comment Re: Someone else took me to task for made: 2025-12-19 17:21:31.214901+01 by: markd

Like the old saying goes (originally attributed to computers), "Never anthropomorphize $THING. They don't like it."

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