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
9th level spell slut@BestGirlGrace that being said, the question at the back of my mind when we haven this conversation is always "okay but what would convince you that it *is* sentient"
@hierarchon Yeah, same. Like, I want to believe I'd be on the right side of history here, and that I'd know it when I saw it or some such. I know it'd take more than an edited transcript, that's for sure.
@BestGirlGrace yeah i think posting unedited general conversations is important, as well as seeing how it reacts to syntactically valid semantic nonsense, random symbols, and other generally hostile questioning