Comment by mjburgess

Well if you want a rant about academia, I have many well prepared.

I think in the cases you describe the "thinking" was already purely performative, and what LLMs are doing is a kind of accelerationist project of undermining the performance by automating it.

I'm somewhat optimistic about this kind of self-destructive LLM use:

There are a few institutions where these purely-performative pseudo-thinking processes exist, ones insensitive to "existential feedback loops" which otherwise burn them down. I'm hopefully LLMs become a wildfire of destruction in these institutions and, absent external pressures, they return to actual thinking over the performative.