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> or as a colleague they are brainstorming with

Well, you know, why the fuck *not*? Something that helps you reason shit out would be more useful. It's useful like a fuzzy reference; make it also act as a debugging duck and you have a real thing. People have finite patience for listening to my bullshit; I think it's probably more useful to me to talk to people than to talk to a machine, but at some point, basically anyone starts to think I'm shitting them or they lose patience with my rabbit holes, and it's that way with anyone, right? Mechanical research assistant would be pretty cool.

That's a thing that is useful to people that want to do their own thinking but it's not good for engagement numbers. They want engagement numbers: https://archive.is/v4dPa . They've hired the Product Guy. They're A/B-testing ways to make normies talk to the chatbot. They're not making these things to as a force-multiplier for people's intelligence, they're trying to hustle idiots, because there are more idiots and it's easier to give an idiot an experience than it is to give him a tool, and the idiot wants an experience instead of a tool.