The Chinese Room was a lame thought experiment. It requires a book so wondrous that any question looked up has an answer convincingly human (it's just that both

The Chinese Room was a lame thought experiment. It requires a book so wondrous that any question looked up has an answer convincingly human (it's just that both the question and reply are in a language the person shuffling pages doesn't understand). The Book can be seen by a modern audience as equivalent to the distillation of all that LLM training. It's odd to me to present an argument on human vs. machine intelligence and completely skip over what human intelligence is — exactly what it is about human intelligence that is so distant from this "trained" (educated?) book. (I think I am also speaking for Karl Pilkington when I say that I have no way to know that the little man in my head that is busy flipping through the Calhoun Book has a clue as to what I am on about either.)