LLMs are a redemonstration of the lesson of sun worship: apes are easily fooled. If the output is indistinguishably 'world modelling', so must its mechanism be

LLMs are a redemonstration of the lesson of sun worship: apes are easily fooled. If the output is indistinguishably 'world modelling', so must its mechanism be. There is no 'world' model in a hashmap from questions to answers about a world. There is only the condition that, given those questions, any old ape would accept those answers. Science is required to determine whether a system has properties, such as a rational ecology; ie. a genuine mechanism of environmental coordination. No engineer, no statistician, and certainly no VC HN Hype Man can determine-so. The nature of reality is no up for Big-O equivalences. Systems have properties in virtue of their nature, not in virute of what I will pay $20/mo for