I can tell that this conversation is not going to be super productive, so a few brief thoughts:

> I can easily falsify the accusation that, "people underestimate transformers and don't see that they are actually intelligent,"

I think that you have an idiosyncratic definition of what "falsify" means compared to what most might. Getting away from messy definitions of "intelligent" which I think are value-laden, I see nothing in your blog post that falsifies the notion that LLMs can generate novel content (another fuzzy value-laden notion perhaps).

> these things are not, "emergent," they are just rearranging numbers.

It seems non-obvious to me that 'rearranging numbers' cannot lead to anything emergent out of that process, yet cascading voltage (as in our brain) can.