Comment by bovermyer

This should not be considered an endorsement of technology so much as an indictment of the failure of extant social systems.

The role where humans with broad life experience and even temperaments guide those with narrower, shallower experience is an important one. While it can be filled with the modern idea of "therapist," I think that's too reliant on a capitalist world view.

Saying that LLMs fill this role better than humans can - in any context - is, at best, wishful thinking.

I wonder if "modern" humanity has lost sight of what it means to care for other humans.