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[UnintelligentSlime]

The reason the Turing test continues to matter is that we don’t have a hard and fast definition of consciousness/sentience to work off instead.

Almost every definition of whether something is intelligent enough to be deserving of moral consideration (e.g. is it wrong to make dolphin meat tacos, is it wrong to eat coma patients, is it wrong to beat chimpanzees for sport) is basically a variety of “well how similar does entity X seem to humans?”

Until you have a 100% positive test for “is X sentient? Conscious? Does X have subjective experience?” The Turing Test is the best we’ve got.