I think you are making my point more eloquently than I could. A perfect transformer cannot add information to a dataset, a (self-aware, sentient) reasoning huma

I think you are making my point more eloquently than I could. A perfect transformer cannot add information to a dataset, a (self-aware, sentient) reasoning human can. Perhaps at this point we are merely speculating on an existence proof-- whether or not there exists such a dataset that contains a sufficient "world model" (for some definition of "world model"). I assert that such a dataset would necessarily include a concept of the self, otherwise the "world model" would be flawed. You seem to disagree. That's fine. My argument does not hinge strongly on whether or not sentience is required for such a world model, it is sufficient to say that no such dataset exists that will provide a transformer with sufficient information to condition weights which will have an accurate world model, sentience or not. The "self-aware sentience" bit was hyperbolic prose for the sake of the joke, but the joke is that anyone pedaling "if only I had more money for compute I could make AGI" is shilling snake oil. No amount of infinite compute can turn an incomplete dataset into anything more than an incomplete dataset, information is conserved. Hopefully that point is not too controversial.