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AMA | April 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Chatbots - It's Not Human Connection

Wright: It can certainly be easy to say, oh, we're just helping a little bit. And use that as an excuse to not do something really better. But i think it is a practical matter. You cannot get around the idea that that's a possible failure mode in that particular way of thinking. The charity's point is it's not human connection. It's just not right at's fake. So even if, again, in a utilitarian way, you're giving them some momentary pleasure, you're not giving them what they think they need to get that pleasure. It's kind of fake pleasure. Even if we started by agreeing that we just want to be happy all

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