(You're probably going to have to get better at answering objections than merely asserting your contradiction of them.)

Nah, calling out completely baseless assertions as just that is fine and a positive contribution to the discussion.

Your carefully constructed argument is less than convincing.

Could you at least elaborate what they are “not”? Surelly you are not having a problem with “LLMs predict language”?

Intelligence is just optimization over recursive prediction function.

There is nothing special about human intelligence threshold.

It can be surpassed by many different models.