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What is *with* the so common need to be *special*? Center of Universe, center of solar system, made in Gods Image, Chosen People, special magic qualia… The wide open universe *more* exciting, to me, imagining meaning is what we make of it, and we are just descendants of a slime mold on some rock.

if you really are looking for an answer: fear of death (primarily)

Human tradition ;) Instinct, it could even be tribalism with LLM being the 'other'. Who knows, it certainly isn't pragmatic thought

Yes, this provincial fear of the other gets coupled to a “moral”: we historically killed The Other, out of fear. Later we layered on justification to soothe our guilt: We are “better”, that’s why it’s ok. We are “special”. Other is not. Maybe we should grow past the Neolithic at some point?

my question becomes: "would our destiny change or our advancement out of the Neolithic be accelerated if we had a cognitive companion on the earth that was fully aligned with us?" (don't ask the doomers that, they're not ready ;)