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Re:Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers by gowld on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:11PM (#48894812)
Users do not want the agent to be restricted. They want the agent to read the user's mind and resolving the user's cognitive dissonance and contradictory preferences.
Re:Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers by sigbottle on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:33PM (#48895134)
Is the implication that human thinking is inherently inferior to the perfect, all knowing AI?

Again, I find this line of thinking time and time again in the modern AI booster space. There are two ways to deal with a problem. Either deal with it, or make it not a problem. Yes, if everyone was simply AI, maybe there would be no problems, because there's no "problematic thought distributions", but that's not how the world is, is it?

And I suspect that even in your hypothetical, perfect rational world, agents would have "cognitive dissonance and contradictory preferences."

And even in this case, even aside from the inherent complexities in a coherent account of thinking and rationality, what the fuck? Not uploading your entire user home directory is clearly within the rules of a hypothetical non-malicious, intelligent AI. Just because an account of all thought is hard, doesn't mean that some thoughts aren't cut and clear.