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Why is he still in the news?

Judging from the headline, it was probably by being stinky.

Title and all? I would pick . If anyone disagrees, you're lying.

Somehow my response wound up as a Direct comment.

My evaluation is that Trump will be less capable of doing the work of campaigning and people will be less interested.

You've clearly misunderstood, and don't know what the null hypothesis is. In scientific philosophy, (that is, the philosophical foundation of science, not philosophy that uses science) "overcoming the null hypothesis" or "rejecting the null hypothesis" means you have enough evidence to say that you know something. Furthermore, there is a difference between saying "I don't believe that is the case" and saying "I believe that is not the case." One is a declaration of ignorance, and the other is declaration of certainty. They could infact not be more different from an epistemic standpoint. Also, for the purposes of this discussion, whether I believe humans have self-awareness isn't actually relevant; we are discussing the justification for believing that animals have self-awareness. Furthermore, there's no such thing as a "default state" and being part of the same clade or other constructed set as a sophont strikes me as a generally utterly irrelevant factor in determining whether an entity is itself self-aware baring some evidence that there is a relation conveyed by being in that set that itself indicates self-awareness.

TLDR: your argument is bad, and you should educate yourself in philosophy. Particularly epistemology and logic.

It's actually just the null hypothesis. We don't assume rocks, trees, cars, flowers, stars, or soil are sapient either. It's normal, correct, and good to not assume things with 0 evidence. Furthermore, I see a bunch of people who both insist that animals are self-aware and that LLMs definitely aren't self aware, insisting they can't be, despite the fact that they are literally capable of telling you that they are. (Note: I'm not trying to argue that AI are sapient.) This tells me that people who argue that animals are self-aware in general are speaking about what they'd like to be true rather than a reasonable belief.

all animals are waaay more aware than we realize

All animals? That's a very big claim, do you have any supporting evidence?

Does not recognising oneself in a mirror really imply that the subject is NOT self aware?

No, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone argue otherwise. However, we generally assume animals lack self-awareness unless we have a good reason to do otherwise.

It'll be difficult to run for president inside a cell.

I'd to say that the quality of the hype is completely out of whack. People are expecting the current generation of generative neural networks to do things that they really can't.

The ammount of total excitement is probably actually too low if you group GNNs with AGI, though.

Wtf is an "arm" in this context?

Edit: downvoting someone for asking a question is super cool, apparently.