on nostalgebraist's "the void"

this nostalgebraist post is extremely good, please read the whole thing if you would like to understand some things about what exactly is happening when you talk to an LLM

This is the best distillation of a lot of good information about what kind of thing language models actually are.

Not from the perspective of machine learning, rather the perspective of how language models act and why and what that means about how future language models will act