[southernplaces7]

For one thing, people often seem stupid to others not so much because they really are so, but because they don't happen to share another's specific context, views and opinions of certain things. Agreement is a terrible way to measure intelligence but so many of us do it.

Secondly, the very fact that you can't convince some people to "get it" (whatever the hell that thing may be, regardless of whether you're the one who's actually failing to get something at the same time) is evidence of their self directed reasoning. For better or worse, it's there, along with a sense of self that even the ostensibly dumbest person has, excepting maybe those with truly profound mental disabilities.

None of these things apply to LLMs, so why not drop the semantics about similarity or much less equivalence? Sel awareness is a sensation that you yourself feel every day as a conscious human being in your own right, and no evidence whatsoever indicates that any LLM has even a smidge of it.