The heavy investment is what makes this truth uncomfortable - it does not make this truth true (or false).
The point is not so much that we already said it, more that the patterns it encodes and surfaces when prompted are patterns in the written corpus, not of the underlying reality (which it has never experienced). Much like a list of all the addresses in the US (or wherever) will tell you very little about the actual geography of the place.
The point is not so much that we already said it, more that the patterns it encodes and surfaces when prompted are patterns in the written corpus, not of the underlying reality (which it has never experienced). Much like a list of all the addresses in the US (or wherever) will tell you very little about the actual geography of the place.