It just occurred to me how relevant Foucault’s account* of sexual behaviour as “problematized, becoming an object of concern, an element for reflection, and a material for stylization” could be to understanding LLMs. The dichotomy of thinking with vs using as a substitute for thought which I built my guidebook around could instead be framed in terms of problematization. Are we relying on them to construct objects of concern, outsourcing the cognitive labour involved in framing and guiding the process? Or are we using them as an engine to support our problematization, finding new ways to look at existing or familiar problems?
*I rarely start a sentence this way.
Mark Carrigan 