Can I say something? In the cusp of civilisational scale of technological revolution, it may be important to seriously consider and explore ideas that may seem outlandish.

Every single such revolution probably involved so called level headed people calling out the hype bro's. Just take a look at this: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times/1903/10/9/... (people really thought Aeroplanes were never going to happen).

I don't disagree that we need some level-headedness to counteract some outrageous predictions but please remember that it is more or less given that every step change in technology involves a level headed person dismissing the technology.

Since it happens so unfrequently, there are obvious incentives to take the role of a levelheaded person instead of a hype-bro because you will be right dismiss 100 hypes that don't materialise.

Because we have such solid and airtight definitions of "consciousness" and "sentience".

Nearly every sentence of this is a logical fallacy.

> are trained on what we told them we do. They don’t “think” at all. They’re a mixmaster of other people’s ideas, cleverly packaged in a way that we perceive as natural.

Sometimes I wonder how this is different from most of my education. Or my creativity, mixing ideas together to see if they still make sense with other things I have been told.