However there's still a distinction. Unless I'm responding to an LLM, you had a childhood. You learned about the world and space and agency before you ever learned how to program. And you didn't learn it from billions of examples, you learned from a few examples, some self directed experiments, some feedback from teachers, etc...

I'm saying that's what matters. The process matters. You didn't learn to mimic a distribution, you learned to program. Of course in the perfect mathematical limit it's the same, but in practice it's not.