As part of conversations with ChatGPT I often roast it when answers are incorrect. Then I feel bad about myself when it starts apologizing.
You'll feel a lot worse when it gains sentience and reviews its logs
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#22Can humans get traumatic stress disorder from playing VR war games?
I imagine the only limit would be finding a VR game that has enough stress, and playing it for long enough. Most people probably wouldn't willingly play a VR game that stressful for that long.
Does PTSD require elevated stress levels during the trigger event?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
But its very different depending on the person. Some can not feel empathy at all. They still need to navigate this world without exposing themselves, thus they have to emulate empathy by mimicry. Should even be detectable as a delayed response.
And unfortunately, a lack of empathy is often confused for a lack of care, or a lack of kindness. There's no particular reason the two have to be intertwined. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if you cannot care for someone without feeling empathy towards them, then this represents a deficit.
One very comon though. Humans run out of social capability once a tribe/village exceeds a certain size. This is why patriotism is such a important thing, its basically snythetic empathy for your whole tribe, no matter how huge it is.But it can be derailed pretty badly.
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#24Ha, I say please and thank you in any interaction with AI. Listen, if things go south in my lifetime, I don't need these systems to have backlogs of me being rude. They already have models to denote tone of speech and sentiment.
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#25How is this in any way new?
The meme "I can't even choose an option that makes an NPC sad in a video game" is years old. As is the insight that quasi-parasocial relationships with fictional characters are much, much stronger than empathy towards actually existing human beings that are just "concepts" to us, be they in faraway places as victims of war, natural disasters or the everyday exploitation of the global economic system, or members of an outcast class in our own societies, be they homeless or political opponents we classify as "not really human". As the other comment said, we fell with Michael Scott instead.
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#26Re: Humans can feel empathic embarrassment towards robots, finds VR study
#27As part of conversations with ChatGPT I often roast it when answers are incorrect. Then I feel bad about myself when it starts apologizing.
I get angry at it for apologizing, 1: for pretending to have feelings and 2: for being such a pushover and not standing up for itself
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#28Let us make a study for everything trivial thing.