Agreed. Taking the "ant" argument to it's logical conclusion and based on https://xkcd.com/1610/ https://xkcd.com/1610/, there very well might be some alien who

Agreed. Taking the "ant" argument to it's logical conclusion and based on https://xkcd.com/1610/ https://xkcd.com/1610/, there very well might be some alien who is part of a very advanced society and struggling in grad school, and that alien's advisor (unhelpfully) is suggesting how cool it is that we earthlings manage to do what we're able to do despite how primitive we are.