What makes you think that text is inherently a worse reflection of the world than light is?
All world models are lossy as fuck, by the way. I could give you a list of chess moves and force you to recover the complete board state from it, and you wouldn't fare that much better than an off the shelf LLM would. An LLM trained for it would kick ass though.
"What makes you think that text is inherently a worse reflection of the world than light is?"
Come on man, did you think before you asked that one :)?
> What makes you think that text is inherently a worse reflection of the world than light is?
What does the color green look like?