Previously, "Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer" <https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer>
I like that.
i guess I'm saying it in a funny way because my brain has always thought about semantic space (and the act/object of conversation itself) in a very spatial way, and it seems that LLMs have a similar tendency
to elaborate: "unable to use metaphor effectively" seems to have multiple dimensions of failure, in which I find the distance metaphor to make easier to explore. A mind-like thing can (1) not know how to make the leaps (and so never try to make them), or (2) it can leap too ambititously and land in faraway places that don't have any deep symmetry in meaning... it can (3) also maybe "not stick the landing" while jumping someplace that theoretically might have merit (in a sense of global vs local scale, maybe being ok at the global scale orienting, but not local scale)...
So in my defence, I think there are failure modes of "being ineffective at metaphor" that are masked by speaking in plainer language :)
I'm beginning to think that this sort of behavior is actually an inverted counter-signal. The average person attuned to LLM's markings may find these things distasteful. But certain individuals or organizations may feel right at ease seeing them.