To reuse part of a 15-month old comment on LLM excitement:

> How might future generations visualize [our grand declarations]? I'm imagining some ancient Greeks, who have invented an inefficient reciprocating pump, which they declare is a heart and that means they've basically built a person. (At the time, many believed the brain was just there to cool the blood.) Look! The fluid being pumped can move a lever: It's waving to us.

Context: "The LLMentalist Effect " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983571