[leoedin]

> "no matter how many books you read about ancient history, you need to have lived there before you can reasonably talk about it"

Every single time I travel somewhere new, whatever research I did, whatever reviews or blogs I read or whatever videos I watched become totally meaningless the moment I get there. Because that sliver of knowledge is simply nothing compared to the reality of the place.

Everything you read is through the interpretation of another person. Certainly someone who read a lot of books about ancient history can talk about it - but let's not pretend they have any idea what it was actually like to live there.

[throw310822]

So you're saying that every time we talk about anything we don't have direct experience of (the past, the future, places we haven't been to, abstract concepts, etc.) we are exactly in the same position as LLMs are now- lacking a real world model and therefore unintelligent?