I'm beginning to wonder how many people I interact with on a daily basis, even offline, are substantially real.

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@Jens_Rasmussen people who feel static. Inorganic. As an example, an LLM that doesn't have a large enough dataset so it is always repeating itself. People who, when challenged, seem to glitch out and either revert to factory settings or hallucinate and spit out garbage. People who seem to just lack general awareness and critical thinking skills. People who seem to lack an actual identity of their own and only maintain a facsimile of one that they have absorbed.

I find myself having a hyper awareness that I don't see in other people and it bothers me from time to time because it feels like it should just be the standard way somebody should act. I don't think it's crazy to expect and I only say it is hyper awareness in comparison to the relative awareness I observe. If I point out a mistake someone will say sorry or try to correct it in the moment but the lasting behavior doesn't change so I know it's just empty. It's not real. A couple particular instances I don't want to expound upon are eating me alive at the moment and I can't fall asleep. Today, in general, I've been feeling this sense that I'm living in unreality.

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