Art is an abstract method of communication. When you choose the words of a poem, you're (hopefully) doing it to convey a feeling within you to the reader. If you write a poem about a beautiful spring day, it's probably because you experienced one, or you're remembering one, or someone was telling you about one, and that evokes feelings within you that you want to put into words, right? Surely you wouldn't write a poem about something you don't care about in any way?

When you talk about something you're wondering about, you're saying that you're missing information. Your ponderings are dancing around the void in your knowledge, defining its boundaries, and maybe imagining what answers might be able to fill that void.

When you put your thoughts into words, they're insufficient. You have so many ideas swirling around in your head, and you can never put them all on a page in the fidelity at which they exist internally. But words are the best we have. Whatever words you write are your best attempt to convey your thoughts to me (barring other media). You're distilling your inner voice that speaks a language only you can understand, into an outer voice that others can understand.

I don't think I'm exactly refuting you here. I think what you've written makes sense, and caused me to think about many things, more so than any other reply to me today. But I also don't think your comment is refuting the point I was trying to make, mainly that LLMs rarely add value in human-to-human communication.

I could probably have pasted my comment and yours into an LLM, and it would have come up with a clearer thread connecting my words to yours. But that thread probably wouldn't have been any of the ones either of us saw, would it?

Thanks for adding a new perspective to the conversation :)