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Used to take quite high doses of LSD, and often had incredible visual hallucinations. Things like watching a large plant sprout flower buds all over it, which slowly expanded to full bloom and then retreated back to small buds; the whole experience went on like that for 20 minutes. Another time I hallucinated that a neighbor's house was on fire, until my friend said she was hallucinating the same thing. Fortunately, the fire brigade showed up quickly to quench the very real flames, without us having to ring them.

Safety from dissent, for an authoritarian government. This is just weaponized "empathy".

"You've done nothing but cultivate your own demise for decades."

He doesn't really blame Trump. Would really like to hear criticism and critique of this analysis.

I know I shouldn't get my news from Reddit, but the consensus there is that the entire FAA crisis (and both recent crashes in the US), is Trump's fault. I don't know the details, but apparently he "gutted" the FAA last week, on the first day he took office, leaving the FAA unable to protect the flying public.

That is a really unsupportable conclusion.

As an extreme example just to make the point undeniable, your parents could have poisoned you, ending your life. Or they could have maimed you and left you unable to walk, or to see. And those are just gross examples.

Parents have a huge impact in an unknowable number of ways. Yours did on you, too.

Maybe. But a human agent also has personal needs, desires, and self-interests that may motivate treachery. Human's have an evolutionarily proven propensity for duplicity and deceit. It may turn out that some silicon experts are more neutral and less prone to betrayal, and are worthy of trust.

Well I don't think getting hung up on such definitions will be fruitful. But here is the point i was trying to make: humans, as individuals and as collectives, do indeed have a lot of experience outsourcing intellectual jobs. They do this knowing full well that the "expert" they're employing is not a deterministic box, and may in fact be secretly working against their interests. None of those problems or potential issues is different if the expert is a human or a silicon agent.

But they are in the abstract sense of something to employ to achieve a result. That's why consultants are hired, not for their humanity, but for their utility.

Human consultants have been a thing for a long time, they're a tool of business. They're meant as a multiplier to the corporate ability, not a replacement. It seems like a shift in economics and availability, rather than a shift in kind, if those consultants are virtual rather than human. No?

Those persist only at the whim of a corporation. There is nothing that preserves them, as they were at a given time, or keeps them in existence if their owner goes out of business or is cast out because of political feuds.

Not that there is a perfect record of every cultural artifact before the digital age of course, maybe it'll all work out somehow.

What will be the vital source of cultural history when people someday look back to where we are now?

Have you ever been able to get a community license? I've submitted a request for one several times over the last year or two and never received a response, not even a denial.