Comment by dclowd9901
14 days ago
I couldn't help but think, reading through this post, how similar of a mindset a person probably is when they receive spiritual awakening with religion as they seem to be when they have "profound" interactions with AI. They are _looking for something_ and there's a perfectly sized shape to fit that hole. I can really see AI becoming incredibly dangerous this way (just as religion can be).
There are a lot of comments here illustrating this. People are looking at the illusion and equating it with sentience because they really want it to be true. “This is not different than how humans think” is held by quite a few HN commenters.