world models be so trendy these days

Just to nag again : "world" models are what every human argues about with each other. But those are built on "categories of sense experience" ( traditional terminology ), and the subsequent graph of gestalten, and then only the names of gestalts. If the phenomenological data types are imprecisely anthropomorphic, the world models will so be. Words too.

The root of AI hurdles for a 100 years has not been having the wrong operations, but having the wrong data structure under operations.