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I know when I go to McDonalds, I go because the person behind the counter makes me feel powerful and important. It's the best. I'm flying high for a week after

• causal 2y ago
  You're adding words I never said. I value the person across the counter from me as well, because in human-to-human interactions there is empathy and connection that transcends the business exchange. There is a person there that I care about way more than I care about fries, and usually that person cares more about me than they do the McDonalds Corporation. So if they mess up my order- no big deal, you're a person after all. Or if I need to run back to get my wallet I left in my car- no big deal, I'm a person after all. Humans generally care more about the people local to them than they do the faceless business operating in the background. But in the human-to-AI scenario, that connection is vaporized, and now it's just me and a machine whose only loyalties lie solely to McDonalds Corporation. It makes you feel unimportant in a very cold way.