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butterbombyesterday at 6:22 PM1 replyview on HN

> Claiming that an immensely powerful being demands obedience of you, and keeps tabs on you all the time, but his orders only go through a chosen few, was a hard proposition to begin with.

You just described what Silicon Valley wants to build lol


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ASalazarMXyesterday at 6:52 PM

I think it's even more pernicious. Religious leaders want to tell you what to think, but since it usually benefits them, it takes constant reinforcement to be effective.

On the contrary, we willingly use (and even pay for) chatbots so they increasingly think for us, and it would take a monumental effort to take them away from us now.

People would even make their own if needed, but at least in that case, it won't be a megacorp telling the chatbot what to think in the first place.