The prose in the post is what I've been shouting from a rooftop since the LLM hype started.
Just tokens produced by weights.
Useful, but never forget that ground truth!
It's a parody of an original story that reversed the premise. In it, machine intelligences were marveling that an apparently intelligent species could in fact be created without any sort of reliable digital substrate, and instead just simulate the capabilities of real minds by using protein synthesis.