I must confess I have a personal vendetta against Yudkowsky and his cult. I studied computer science in college. As an undergrad, I worked as an AI research assistant. I develop software for a living. This is my garden the LessWrong crowd is trampling.
I assumed Elon was just incapable of empathy, but after he tweeted "If you don't think there's a tiny chance you're an NPC, then you probably are", I wouldn't be shocked if his brain was a biological version of chatGPT.
Like their own sentience is the one thing every sentient being is certain of.
He's deeply high on his own occult supply, but I won't deny sentience to
even if he bloviates in a meandering way intended to deny it toward others.