Comment by dinkumthinkum

Humans don't do this all the time. I think you are conflating things to further this false idea that there is no distance between human thinking and the behavior of LLMs. The kind of rationalization humans sometimes do generally happens over a period of time. Humans are also not "rationalizing" their actions all the time. Also, when humans do what you call "rationalizing," it is to serve some kind of interest, beyond responding to a prompt.