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The story goes that people would request to have sessions with it, even if they knew it's just parroting some phrases. They just needed to be heard out!

I feel really sad about how people need to resort to therapy for the kind of interaction that would be provided by a healthy social norm of honest and open communication. Maybe I should talk to my therapist about this feeling. But somehow I doubt that would actually accomplish anything.

This is the first time I see history repeating itself first as farce and only then as tragedy. Personally, I would be hard pressed to trust any data collection business with any honest information about my mental health.

DNA profiling in the 23andme thread, psychological profiling over here, teachers teaching kids to be unable to put 2 and 2 together in the "AI presentation maker for teachers" thread. Scariest of all is how those who would simply prefer to not live in that kind of world are gradually dehumanized by those who find nothing wrong with that sort of thing...



The problem is that there are a lot of people who are destroying the ability to communicate in the name of "morality", when in reality they are just political opportunists, who are indirectly harming themselves, including their supposed political cause, in the process.

The amount of wilful bridge burning is crazy.


Also I either became unstuck in time again or my other reply to your post had done a disappear for a good while. Suppose it's the load balancer flaking out under the weight of all the tinfoil I wear as my fashion statement? Guess some weirdness is afoot, I could see it in the tea leaves and the traceroute, too :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghF9aOlBDY&t=69s




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