The Emperor's New Algorithms is a phenomenological analysis of how LLMs function as "algorithmic tailors" weaving garments of probabilistic coherence that users mistake for truth.

The irony isn't lost on me: I used Claude to help formalize these ideas. The paper synthesizes Baudrillard's hyperreality with transformer architecture analysis to argue we're living in fourth-order simulacra.

Question for HN: If the analysis is correct but the method is self-referential, does that validate or invalidate the thesis?