[skohan]

> One thing that seems missing from this discussion is that even if LLMs are sentient, there is no reason to believe that we would be able to tell by "communicating" with them.

Or, more horrifyingly, our own subjective experience may be an illusion and maybe the concept of sentience is not really meaningful

[waserwill]

More horrifying is that our subjective experience is all that there is. Luckily, neither is easy to square with what we experience, and we probably shouldn't try to horrify ourselves anyhow