Comment by everdrive

There’s a implication here which I think most people are missing. People can incorrectly attribute consciousness, intent, and personality to things which don’t actually posses it. Pet rocks, stuffed animals, LLMs. But, how confident are you that you have a proper mental model for the people around you? Have you understood them with any sort of accuracy? Does your theory of mind match the real person particularly well? In the extreme, you see error such as a killer who no one suspected. In the more mundane arena, you have girlfriends and boyfriends who are head over heels, but cannot communicate over basic things. You have the more spectrum-y folks badly putting their feet in their mouths, primarily because they failed to mentally model the person in front of them. Most grim from my perspective, you have funerals: the full, deep person is lost to the world and all that remains the two-dimensional and very partial competing theories of mind from the surviving loved ones.