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adventuredlast Friday at 4:56 PM0 repliesview on HN

99% of humans are mimics, they contribute essentially zero original thought across 75 years. Mimicry is more often an ideal optimization of nature (of which an LLM is part) rather than a flaw. Most of what you'll ever want an LLM to do is to be a highly effective parrot, not an original thinker. Origination as a process is extraordinarily expensive and wasteful (see: entrepreneurial failure rates).

How often do you need original thought from an LLM versus parrot thought? The extreme majority of all use cases globally will only ever need a parrot.