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> arrogant jerks who didn't listen [and would] not take you seriously

Pride goeth before the fall. I wonder how many arrogant jerks will be humbled to see that they too are now inferior to a computer ("soon"). Humans will always be better at being human though, perhaps they will learn empathy is more important than they thought.



Humans will be better at being humans, for sure, but the jury is still out as to if humans prefer to interact with other humans given a sufficiently reliable alternative. Hell is other people, after all.


> Humans will always be better at being human though

What do you mean by that? If you mean humans will be always the best being the creature we call human then that goes by definition.

If you mean humans will be always more compassionate/emotionaly understanding/better suited to deliver bad news then I am afraid that is unsubstantiated.


I meant that a human is valuable just because they are a human; this is not cold truth, but it is a moral value almost everyone shares (and I don't want to imagine a future without this value). In days past some have become arrogant because, let's say, they know more about health and medicine than everyone else; it's their source of self-worth. They may soon have to reassess their value and values.


What you are calling empathy is just patterns of language statistically optimized to be convincing to the average person. And I might sound arrogant when I despair at being surrounded by morons who "buy it", but that is IMO still better than being a sociopath who enjoys it when others are easy to manipulate with pretty words.

ChatGPT = artificial sociopathy




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