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Re:Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife by hammyhavoc on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:07PM (#35774841)
Where do we then draw the line in ethics?

People in poverty are unhappy. Shall we just convince them they're actually happy and healthy by manipulating their brain chemistry?

Re:Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife by scotty79 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @05:20AM (#35785086)
Good question. There's obviously a line somewhere. But I think it's ultimately almost always down to what's technically achievable. Poverty causes suffering in so many ways. I don't think we'll every be able to fix all of them without fixing poverty itself. My point is not to make someone happy by medicating him with a drug causing him more harm. Suffering people already do that with actual "recreational" drugs. And we have a lot of data on the side effects of those substances and additional harm they do, not because they alleviate suffering, but because of all other effects they have.