alt Hacker News> And it should not go this way, is the OPs point
Well, he's wrong. If you argue that LLMs and humans are fundamentally different because all LLMs do X and no human does it, then showing you that it's not true demolishes your argument. Doesn't prove anything positive, but it certainly proves that your argument is invalid.
Well this requires you to buy the very bullshit argument that comparisons of two physically distinct systems just because they share outputs is meaningful.
If I call a lightbulb an artificial star, the onus is on me to show the behavior under the hood is star like, not just to point at the light and say “you must see it’s a a star since it’s emitting light!”.