The Mt. Everest discussion looks like the kind of conversation you might get with a well-informed ten-year-old if you were to ask them: "Hey, pretend you're Mt.

The Mt. Everest discussion looks like the kind of conversation you might get with a well-informed ten-year-old if you were to ask them: "Hey, pretend you're Mt. Everest and go talk with @andreyk over there." The question of sentience presumably requires on a widely-accepted technical definition of sentience, something that may not be possible to generate due to both technical and social difficulties.