When you ask an LLM a reasoning question. You're not expecting it to think for you, you're expecting that it has crawled multiple people asking semantically the same question and getting semantically the same answer, from other people, that are now encoded in its vectors.
That's why you can ask it. because it encodes semantics.
I've still got an unfinished modded space exploration playthrough I'd like to complete. Anyone know how I can stop steam from updating the game and breaking the mods for however long it is until the mod authors update thinga?