He reminds us that LLMs are simulators, not independent entities. And honestly, this shift in thinking changes how you interact with them.
Instead of asking:
“What do you think about xyz?”
Try this:
“What group of people would be best suited to discuss xyz? What would they say?”
There’s no “you” in there. The model doesn’t hold opinions or think things through the way we do. It hasn’t reflected on the topic and formed a stance. When you force it into a “you” framing, it still responds — but it’s essentially adopting a personality vector drawn from training data statistics and simulating it.
That’s fine. It works. But there’s far less mystery here than people assume when they ask questions to “artificial intelligence.”
This is what good prompting advice looks like)
