LLMs: A Triumph and a Curse for Wordcels

For centuries, there’s been a low-key intellectual turf war. On one side: wordcels—people who think in sentences, argue in essays, and believe language is the skeleton key to human intelligence. On the other: shape rotators—those who think in images, mentally spin 3D objects, and solve problems without a single word.

And then large language models (LLMs)…