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It is unfortunate opinion, because I personally hold Chomsky in fairly high regard and give most of his thoughts I am familiar with a reasonable amount of consideration if only because he could, I suppose in the olden days now, articulate his points well and make you question your own thought process. This no longer seems to be the case though as I found the linked article somewhat difficult to follow. I suppose age can get to anyone.

Not that I am an LLM zealot. Frankly, some of the clear trajectory it puts humans on makes me question our futures in this timeline. But even if I am not a zealot, but merely an amused, but bored middle class rube, the serious issues with it ( privacy, detailed personal profiling that surpasses existing systems, energy use, and actual power of those who wield it ), I can see it being implemented everywhere with a mix of glee and annoyance.

I know for a fact it will break things and break things hard and it will be people, who know how things actually work that will need to fix those.

I will be very honest though. I think Chomsky is stuck in his internal model of the world and unable to shake it off. Even his arguments fall flat, because they don't fit the domain well. It seems like they should given that he practically made his name on syntax theory ( which suggests his thoughts should translate well into it ) and yet.. they don't.

I have a minor pet theory on this, but I am still working on putting it into some coherent words.