@tinker @jackel23gr Yup. I remember that one. I boosted it, saw people questioning it, then went to do the research. It's so infuriating when something so validating turns out to be false. Infuriating, embarrassing...and destabilizing. "What other things have I believed and shared that aren't based in reality?" The clannish lizard brain does not want to accept being wrong.

Ftr I unboosted that one.

As is his wont, @pluralistic knocks it out of the ballpark.

In these, our increasingly enshittified days, this message cannot be repeated enough:

"(T)here's one job that an AI can absolutely do better than a human: it can reinforce our delusions more efficiently, more quickly, and more effectively than a community of sufferers can.

"Speed isn't the only reason that LLMs are super efficient delusion-reinforcers. An LLM has no consciousness, it has no desires, and it has nothing it wants...
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