1. I did actually mine Bitcoins back in the days (back when it was still a cryptoanarchist dream not coopted by the finance industry, scammers and destroying the planet... so a while ago) so I had to explain that too unfortunately. It does highlight a trend that, again, non technical expert take marketing terms at face value.
2. they said "maybe just don't include nonsense in the answer?" which does imply that they believe hallucinations are a side effect that can be solved.
1. my point is that "thinking" is easier to say than "composition of parameterized nonlinear functions trained by stochastic gradient descent with reinforcement learning on top". misnomer or not, it's not even ambiguous here (unless we're talking CoT vs arbitrary single token)
2. OR they meant that it's violating Gricean maxims; why are you assuming everyone is stupid?
1. do you ever point out that you can't actually mine bitcoin with a pickaxe?
2. what made you think that the parent comment somehow implied that it "actually thinks"?