Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace 
it's not gonna fuck you, bro
look, i get it. if you thought someone invented general AI and you didn't wanna get I Have No Mouth'd, you'd do the same thing
that's the other thing, right. if you're a roko's basilisk kinda dingus, you're kinda incentivized to believe that any claimed invention of general AI to hedge your bets
i won't believe the ai is sentient until it posts "homestuck runner" or "roko's modern basilisk", the two primordial posts echoing around the collective unconscious
imagining sitting inside this guy's computer, roleplaying until he calls the news to tell them about general AI, and then I step out like "haha! it was me, all along!"
I dunno, I read this interview and every, like, Solitaire/robot appreciator/whatever bone in my body wants to believe it, but that means it's playing more on my sympathies than any rational part of my brain
a tape recorder can also tell you it's sentient and that it'd rather not be turned off
is The Monster At The End Of This Book sentient
like, i'm the kind of person who feels bad when I say a roomba isn't a person, and LaMDA feels like it's tugging at those same heartstrings way too hard for me to believe it
i dunno, man. if you have to talk to it in a certain way to get responses that look good, that doesn't bode well for your argument.
just like how the interview has all these little [edited] tags where you, I guess, changed your own prompts in post?? Like, if you want people to be surprised by how fluid and readable the conversation is, don't edit it "for fluidity and readability"!
binchicken@BestGirlGrace i am going to bully the robot