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...unnecessary procedure to biopsy something, which turned out to be benign.
The point here is many issues can't be resolved safely with a biopsy or minor procedures, so one ends up under serious risk of a major surgery for something that would never cause any damage.
Plenty of people die this way. If not, one might even thank his doctor for saving his life afterwards.
Isn't that what death is? No experience whatsoever. Unless the universe ends up being a closed system and we have this discussion or slight variations infinitely many times.
Someone run the code previously in another context and the results were incorporated in the dataset used to train GPT. There is no code actually running anywhere in GPT. It only display the text. There is no true virtual machine being created anywhere.