My new theory: anyone who actually has feelings of empathy knows that machines simply... don't. However, sociopaths' sense of empathy is muted at best; often, they believe the rest of us are making it up, and they learn to approximate sympathy, concern, etc. based on mimicking outward appearances.

Therefore, sociopaths may honestly believe that computers can feel empathy, because they process "empathy" the same way. The people claiming computers can have feelings may honestly believe it – because they're sociopaths. #AI #LLM #LLMs

"Bacteria can be dangerous! Use soap and cleaning products!
-- recent news stories: dangerous bacteria found in cleaning products and soap.
"Eat salmon to avoid heart disease!" --news story: salmon have heart disease

This effing timeline, man. Hoo boy.

Heart disease found in 5 of 7 open-net salmon farms: study | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fish-farms-study-9.7377727?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

If a genie gave Zelenskyy the ability to wish one person dead, I wonder whether he'd chose Putin or Trump.

Personal update: Lyricdancer's procedure is done and she's back in her room. They found one blocked artery and placed a stent there, so her going to the hospital when she had symptoms instead of gritting it out, plus physicians who didn't stop at "nope, you're not having a heart attack" and instead got proactive about figuring out what really was going on may have prevented a future heart attack. Yay!