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Comment by pixl97

>People have agency, they can choose what to do with their lives and their money and I'm okay with the reaping and sowing lining up together.

Heh, I wonder how this fits in with how AI thinks about it.

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197313

>Every AI model has the same “controversial” take on humans

You have far less agency than you think you do. We are automatons in so much of our behavior. You do what your parents tell you, your parents do what the church tells them, and you all buy ice cold Coca-Cola because the TV tells you to. In bulk we are statistically predictable. This is why we have laws against particular drugs, huge numbers of us will high ourselves to death and collapse the society around us. Society itself is a remover of agency. Animals can do whatever they want, humans are constrained socially in what we're allowed to do.

We really do have a false idea of who we are.

parent pixl97 9 days ago

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