It Feels Like a Friend. That's Exactly the Problem.
AI chatbots, deceptive empathy, and why the bond you feel is by design.
Epistemic: how we know what we know. Whimsy: following curiosity wherever it goes.
Epistemic whimsy combines the philosophical study of knowledge with playful, spontaneous, and unpredictable thinking.
Thinking out loud about psychology, nervous systems, work, and being a person. Some of it is settled. Most of it isn't.

AI chatbots, deceptive empathy, and why the bond you feel is by design.
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