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Great adoption of the manga. I am hyped for the next episode.
The way demons are depicted reminds me a lot of LLMs (and AI in general).
Less powerful demons have no understanding of human thought and are really bad at fooling people (see the girl-demon in the flashback).
Medium powerful demons still have no understanding of human thought, but are somewhat good at imitating people (see the present-day demons from todays EP).
More powerwull demons...
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start to develop more complex strategies for fooling humans.While the most powerfull demons
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are implementing strategies that trancent both human strategies and the original demon strategies.this article by scott alexander does a good job of explaining how AI's are inhuman intelligences, that are trying to fool humans into thinking they have morals. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/perhaps-it-is-a-bad-thing-that-the
This pretty much describes demons in Frieren. Different demons you have to scratch at harder than others, similar to how better AI models you have to engineer your prompts better to get it to break. The best fictional stories are the ones that can help us to better understand and contextualize the nonfiction world around us.