Aravind Srinivas: observation

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…Yeah, it is a hard path although I would say that human AI connection is also a hard path to do it well in a way that humans flourish, but it’s a fundamentally different problem. It feels dangerous to me. The reason is that you can get short-term dopamine hits from someone seemingly appearing to care for you. Absolutely. I should say the same thing Perplexity is trying to solve also feels dangerous because you’re trying to present truth and that can be manipulated with more and more power that’s gained. So to do it right, to do knowledge discovery and truth discovery in the right way, in an unbiased way, in a way that we’re constantly expanding our understanding of others and wisdom about the world, that’s really hard.…

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