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"Witness, too, how seamlessly Mark Zuckerberg went from selling the idea that Facebook would lead to a flourishing of human friendship to, now, selling the notion that Meta will provide you with AI friends to replace the human pals you have lost in our alienated social-media age."

Perhaps "AI" can replace people like Mark Zuckerberg. If BS can be fully automated.



It can’t. To become someone like Mark, you must have absolute zero empathy. LLMs have a little empathy in them due to their training data.


No they have apparent empathy because of the reward models humans trained them with.

To be Mark you have to experience real existential fear, and a need to control other people to compensate the fear. And LLMs can't do that indeed. But they might be able to simulate it at some point.




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