Note by @fastfinge

@munin I really disagree with this. The idea that language is not thinking seems to say that it's impossible for anyone to understand or reason about any concept they have not experienced. I'm completely blind. But I can still reason about colours, without any experience of them; I can tell you why some people try to claim that brown, white, and purple aren't colours and why there's no brown light. I understand why things would look different to people who can see when in UV light. I know that traditionally, boomers think of blue as for boys and pink for girls, firetrucks are red, cold is blue, the sun is yellow, etc. I understand the spectrum of wavelengths of light, and could put colours in order. Language is a way of associating things with symbols, and then using those symbols to reason about things. To say that I am equal to an LLM when it comes to anything visual because I am blind seems both offensive and inaccurate. I've also never been to space, swum in the ocean, or gone hang-gliding. But I can still talk meaningfully about all three! I'm also not sure how I (or anyone) could think or reason about anything, without somehow associating language to the concept first. It could be sign language, or nonverbal; I'm not prioritizing spoken or written words with the word language. But as I read this, you're coming dangerously close to saying that people with sensory disabilities cannot be intelligent.