<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Known facts: some acts of ours are catching, like yawns. If you do something and it results in someone else smiling at you, it can make you happy too, even if you faked sincerity or sympathy. You can do this by yourself: smile and laugh at just nothing. Your brain will pour out good chemicals. Not fake. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 9:40 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6837434984724514729"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-6837434984724514729WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">(I have to doubt that Spike's forgiveness is not real. Spike? Holding grudges? Heaven forbid1)</span>…. Billw<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Hey cool, idea: hold fake grudges. Against imaginary people, Such as the bastards who gave Winston such a bad time in 1984.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Billw, this has been a terrific, inspiring discussion, starting all the way back to when we started with ChatGPT and its enormous revelations about ourselves. The fake pleasantness for instance: well if it makes other’s happy, it is justified in my book. I don’t see the harm in it. I see the benefit of it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">What are greeting cards please? Sympathy cards? Get well cards? We can go down to the drug store and just read a few of those, by people who make their living writing stuff that can ease the pain of others, ja? Well how hard is it? Learn how to write like that, and then get ANY sympathy card, write the comforting words with a pen that others wrote so well. It means more to the patient if they read what you wrote with a pen rather than what Hallmark printed in there, ja? OK fair game. If it helps the patient, write it. Pretend to mean it, or in some cases you really do, so… fair game, play ball.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">If we create a fake CareBot, well I say if it helps the patient, that looks like good medicine and since I mention medicine: what are drugs? Isn’t that artificial feels-good stuff? Pain killers, well if they work and the patient is in pain, go right ahead. Loneliness and boredom are painful, so… CareBots. I don’t care if they really don’t “care.” I only care if they work. This ChatGPT4 carebot looks like something that will comfort me in my dotage, even if I know it’s just software and even if I know I was one who thought it wasn’t “conscious” in the sense that we are.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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