Greg M. EpsteinSep 27, 2023
Jesus, and I cannot stress this enough, Fucking Christmas. You could not get any better definition of the religious hubris of tech if you looked it up in a Biblical encyclopedia. (Sutskever's post is so epically bad, it inspired my first cross-post!)
Show threadJorge Caballero, MDSep 27, 2023
@gepstein We need to start a Hall of Shame for bad takes, and that post you shared should be the first inductee 😬
Show threadGreg M. Epstein
@DataDrivenMD I have a kind of section for just that in the book I just finished writing and turned in, but damn if this doesn't command a bit of a rewrite
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:44pmWeb
Show threadMikelaSep 28, 2023

@gepstein @DataDrivenMD im not exactly into AI solves any problems but therapy in particular talk therapy has a wildly low success rate and is wildly expensive such that some researches have suggested it unethical. i feels useful but doesnt accomplish initial goals

my suspicion is that a rubber duck is only marginally less effective than a human for the average therapy session and so a human seeming system with 0 psychology background but seeming to listen might be effective