Episode 8.85: Self-regard, shame, and what GPT chatbots tell us about being better human beings.

I doubt that there is anyone alive who has not been damaged to some extent by the scorn of others. One of the most remarkable things about the OpenAI chatbot series is that they signally fail and refuse to criticise those who interact with them. This is remarkable, and something that human beings would do well to emulate That it has taken an AGI to teach us this perhaps tells us more about the human condition than anything else could. What is pathetic and objectionable about the Zizek response is that it idolises the human characteristics we should most deplore. It is as dismissive as it is ignorant.