[tbalsam]

Honestly, I think sentience is a sliding scale that everything is on, even if micro microscopically. I think it depends upon personal spiritual beliefs and philosophy.

To me, this would be more sentient than previous models by a fair margin, but is it above the general population mean for what they'd consider "sentient" to be? A magnitude below or above? Two?

I don't know. There's obviously more to the convo and I think AGI still has some time on the clock. The clock is moving though, I think. :'( / :')