This is off-topic, but I had brought up Scott Adams.
In order to keep my remaining brain cells awake I simultaneously listened to
Scott Adams commenting on Artificial Intelligence on
Is Google's AI, LaMDA, sentient? as I read
garymarcus.substack.com: Nonsense on Stilts No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly.
I'm reminded of a quote from
Godel Escher Bach on Zeno's paradox. Boys on one side of the dance floor, girls on the other. They halve the distance between them repeatedly; eventually they are close enough for 'all practical purposes'.