Future people will look back on current discussions about LLMs being conscious in the same way that we look back on Victorians discussing whether the telephone could be used to contact the spirit world.
VIROLOGIST: “It’s bizarre, Hantavirus almost never jumps from human to human like this. Usually it’s from coming into contact with rat feces or something.”
CRUISE SHIP CHEF: “Yeah, that’s crazy, it must’ve mutated or something.”
You don’t get to shake your head in disbelief that your manager is coming out to give you the hook when you’ve completed five innings ONCE all season and are rocking an ERA above NINE. Enough with this guy.