Thousands of years of thinking about these issues, decades coming to hard grips with how little we understand, and LLMs drop like an atom bomb waking up every idiot on the planet who has naive things to say about consciousness. What's the motivation to talk so loudly and confidently about things one knows nearly nothing about?

Edit: I regret using the word "idiot" above. Nothing against the author's intelligence. Poor choice of words on my part. Naively presumptuous is closer to the mark.