If you were trying to show another species that you were intelligent, sending basic shapes isn’t a terrible way to demonstrate understanding of some abstract ideas. Fascinating to consider what they’re “saying” with these.

The metaphor is comparing the idea of loyalty, a concept vitally important to the ideology of fascism, with the LLM trait of consistency. An LLM is highly consistent, so much so that common patterns in its output can be used to spot generated artifacts. However it is not “loyal” because loyalty is about being inconsistent in one’s “beliefs” (expressed statements of knowledge) but consistent to a moment-to-moment truth defined by an authority figure.

You got insulted because you’re debating in a way that seems catered towards “winning” an internet argument instead of trying to understand what WoodScientist was saying: that a fascist LLM would be difficult because it would require constant retraining to keep up with the ever-shifting fascist narrative. You’ve never even addressed this point, just repeatedly doubled down that because he said “loyalty” instead of “responding in line with the currert beliefs of the ruling party which change on a daily basis” that the entire argument is invalid and therefore it’s “easy to train a reactionary LLM.” You also keep confusing reactionary and fascist.

And I neither did a “drive by insult” nor did I “run away into the night.” Though i will now rather than continue wasting my time on this. just came back to correct you yet again, and offer an actual ad hominem for you to compare against.

Fuck off, moron.

Excuse me, I’m trying to work today! Please refrain from posting this pornography in regular funny star trek threads!

Gotta be careful of that heat! Make sure to wear a big shady hat and have plenty of water when doing weed for lunch, the hottest part of the day!

OK but unless one if the 17 benefits is “drugs you to wakefulness with caffeine” then it isn’t exactly a coffee substitute is it?

The metaphor was the part you were being a pedant about.

the LLMs actually stand by their principles much better than fascists

If the audience knows how LLMs work internally, then they know they don’t have “loyalty,” just stochastic processes. If the audience didn’t know that, your pithy “aktually that’s incorrect” wouldn’t teach them anything correct, but would cause confusion because it sounds like you’re denying the metaphor.

Also, it’s not an ad hominem to say that you are acting like an LLM: with poor reading comprehension and an overly-literal interpretation. That’s an observation of your unproductive behavior. An ad hominem would be insulting you or name-calling with unrelated info, such as calling you “stupid like an LLM.”

It isn’t a logical fallacy to be called out on your bullshit, even if it hurts your feelings.