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We see faces in fucking wall outlets. I could give a pencil a name and the next three people I talk to will form empathy with it.
People are desperate for connection, and it’s sad.
I love this about us.
It's just delightful how many situations our brain is willing to shrug and say "close enough" to. Oh wait the pencil has a name now? I guess it must be basically the same as me.
If I pretend an object is talking, my partner will instantly feel bad for how she's treated it.
It's not sad, it's just how brains are.
I'm perpetually mad at having a global conversation about a thing without understanding how it works despite how it works not being a secret or that complicated to conceptualize.
I am now also mad at having a global conversation about a thing without understanding how we work despite how we work not being a secret or that complicated to conceptualize.
I mean, less so, because we're more complicated and if you want to test things out you need to deal with all the squishy bits and people keep complaining about how you need to follow "ethics" and you can't keep control groups in cages unless they agree to it and stuff, but... you know, more or less.
There is absolutely nothing sad about that, it's beautiful. That tendency is the only reason we have any form of civilization, so I'd say it's worth people occasionally empathizing with pencils.
I meant the latter more so as a result of the atomization of society, but yes.
The pencil isn’t the problem, the attachment/loss of perspective to a digital program due to not having enough human connection is.
It's just natural human instinct. We're programmed to look for patterns and see faces. It's the same reason we attribute human characteristics to animals or even inanimate objects.
Add to that the fact that everyone refers to LLM chatbots as humans and this is inevitable.
I learned the other day that a few people (devs) I know and respect have pet names and genders for the LLMs they use and converse with them regularly.
I'm rethinking some of my feelings about those people.
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