What you are calling empathy is just patterns of language statistically optimized to be convincing to the average person. And I might sound arrogant when I desp

What you are calling empathy is just patterns of language statistically optimized to be convincing to the average person. And I might sound arrogant when I despair at being surrounded by morons who "buy it", but that is IMO still better than being a sociopath who enjoys it when others are easy to manipulate with pretty words. ChatGPT = artificial sociopathy