This tech bro woo idea that you just have to feed an algorithm enough data for it to spontaneously become self-aware is so obviously, tediously wrong.
@gwynnion Truth. There are multiple axes one could use to contradict the hypothesis. The most obvious should be that human toddlers are self-aware and their input to that point has been mostly running around in a semi-controlled environment, bumping into things, and throwing sounds at the world to see what sounds come back.
They certainly haven't digested every published document from the UN website, but somehow they know that their feet are their own.
