this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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I'm not "missing" anything, Sparky. I've lived through quite a few such changes, and it wasn't pretty.
I just don't see anything special about this particular one that renders the moral hue and cry. Like I said at the start: there's plenty of real reasons to target AI. People deluding themselves into a cult is not one of them, since people have been deluding themselves into cults even before the historical record, likely.
The difference with these AI cults is that the AI is essentially standing in for the cult leader. A cult leader that can speak to millions simultaneously in one-on-one personal conversations is something new that is going to have real world consequences.