I think compression is probably a natural consequence of coherent self models? Isn't requiring other minds to package their intelligence in human interpretable linear narratives is like requiring dolphins to demonstrate intelligence through written language?

> compression is probably a natural consequence of coherent self models

I don't think so. The case in the Chinese Room argument is coherent by construction but is not a compression.

> dolphins to demonstrate intelligence through written language

Because LLMs are artificial and not a product of physical evolution, our standards for proving intelligence are much, much higher.