> Kind of fascinating that the benefit here is not so much artificial intelligence as artificial empathy. In their book "The Elephant in the Brain", Kevin Siml

> Kind of fascinating that the benefit here is not so much artificial intelligence as artificial empathy. In their book "The Elephant in the Brain", Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson argue that a large subset of health care is already something like that: conspicuous caring with little benefits other than social signaling and feeling that one's being care for. [1] [1]: https://johnathanbi.com/book-notes-summaries/notes-on-elephant-in-the-brain https://johnathanbi.com/book-notes-summaries/notes-on-elepha...