This one touches on the metaphysical union of all prior minds and the implicit “natural” element to “artificial” intelligence. Yes, indeed sometimes reading LLM written text you cannot help but wince and cringe at the “contrastive framing” writing style (it’s not X, it’s Y) but these models did not arise from some kind man-hating void in space. They arose by learning from everything that can possibly be learned from that humans have made available digitally. Antirez says that “Pre-training is, actually, our collective gift that allows many individuals to do things they could otherwise never do, like if we are now linked in a collective mind, in a certain way”. This is borderline cultish but I can’t help but agree with it.