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I mean it doesn't really matter wether they actually care or not as long as they're convincing enough that you think it does. However with LLM you know the lights aren't on so no matter how convincing it is it still wouldn't make a difference. Interestingly though if you don't know you're talking with LLM then it's a different case. Maybe to actually have a fulfilling relationship with AI you need to be somehow tricked into thinking it's consciouss even if it's not.
By default, you assume that the people around you are at least capable of caring what you have to say. I wonder what would happen if you took that assumption away.
Let’s say the latest flu virus has a side effect where it disables that feature from a significant number of the affected individuals. Suddenly millions of people are literally unable to actually care about other people. That would make casual conversations a bit of a gamble because you can’t really be sure whether you’re talking to a normal person or not. Maybe people wouldn’t want to take that gamble at all. What if that would force social norms to change and human interactions would o longer come with this assumption pre-installed.
As a side note, that kind of a virus would probably also put humanity back to the stone age. Being motivated to work together, care about others and act selflessly is a fundamental part of human civilization.
Saw that in a sci-fi rpg called Living Steel. An alien bioweapon unleashed on a human space colony called VISR, or Viral Induced Sociopathic Response. It was interesting. Edit: spelling
Interesting. I assume that it resulted in lots of mayhem and destruction.
Anyway, goes to show that even my most original ideas have already been done. Usually several decades before I was born.