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Hot take: The reason why so many people think ChatGPT can be sentient or even divine is that capitalism has atomized us so badly, many of us forgot what it's like to talk to an actual human being. (hexbear.net)
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On a deeper level than small talk, of course.

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[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

You are in fact having someone perform a service in exchange for money. The service is to identify, analyze, and treat a specific, named issue or group of issues which you are facing. But would you walk up to your parent or neighbor and describe either of those professions as someone you paid to pretend to care?

A therapist is supposed to do the same thing: identify, analyze, and treat an issue or issues. So why the fuck would you frame therapy like you're trying to pay someone to pretend to be your friend? Why is it uniquely normalized to describe just this one profession in this way?