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The human-chatbot interactions we describe predispose to what might be termed a "single-person echo chamber" [34](https://paperpile.com/c/Gkdt8S/oh2R) , wherein a user engaging in an extended chatbot interaction encounters their own interpretations, distorted and amplified, yet presented persuasively [76](https://paperpile.com/c/Gkdt8S/M5tY) and carrying a veneer of objective external validation.

Technological Folie a Deux - Google Docs

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You could imagine a transhumanist endgame where a subservient majority lives short, mean lives ruled by centenarian aristocrats. It is already true today that the poorest people in this country have a life expectancy nearly [two decades shorter](https://www.ft.com/content/653bbb26-8a22-4db3-b43d-c34a0b774303) than the ultra-wealthy.

Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

Tamara Kneese , Santiago Sanchez

For a crisis to be ‘fascism-inducing’ or ‘fascism-producing’ (Eley, 2016, cited in Malm and The Zetkin Collective, 2021) it has to appear to be beyond the capacity of traditional systems to solve. But this is only one side of the equation; the other is the decision of the dominant social class to invoke fascistic forces as a way to preserve their existing power.

Resisting AI

Dan McQuillan

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