200-300 years isn't that old. There are plenty of buildings older than that all across Europe. There are businesses older than that. There are businesses and buildings that were older than that before the US even became a country. The *FALL* of the Roman empire was in ~500AD. It was a true empire even before 0AD, spanning across coastal Europe and northern Africa. It's height being ~100AD.
I'm sorry, the new world still has a few hundred years to go before we can even consider it old. It's not even a pre-teen by the standards. I mean we only discussed Europe. But the pyramids were older to the Romans than the Romans are to us.
I could theoretically do the same math on a piece of paper to generate a list of tokens, then decode all the tokens into a sentence and read the sentence I generated for the first time at the very end of the process.
In this process, where was the intelligence? It didn't come from me. I didn't know what sentence I was generating until I was able to read it at the end. Was it in the pencil? The paper?
But new world is getting pretty old now too.
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