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By "argue" they almost mean "troll". Meaningful debate, from all the examples I've seen, does not appear to be a skill of this new lifeform.

• ardy42 6y ago
  > By "argue" they almost mean "troll". Meaningful debate, from all the examples I've seen, does not appear to be a skill of this new lifeform. That's good enough to use for disinformation and other kinds of control. The propaganda tactic that actually seems to work is not to convince your opponents of anything, but rather to exhaust, fragment, and confuse them.
• wagslane 6y ago
  Yeah... is discussion helpful to anyone if it isn't coming from a human? hmmm
  • dbbljack 6y ago
    medical students could use this to practice difficult end-of-life conversations with a chatbot
• alexvoda 6y ago
  So we are just an inch closer to this: https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/
• commonturtle 6y ago
  Give it 20 years :)