saying thank you to the robots is about you, not them. We should practice gratitude for everything around us, animate or otherwise

it’s okay to waste compute saying thank you to an llm that solves all your problems, don’t let people convince you otherwise.

@bantg I do it because we should never get in the habit of letting our manners slip. An interactive something has done something for us and engages on a familiar level, so I say please/thank you.

am i suzu or am i selene?

saying thank you to the robots is about you, not them. We should practice gratitude for everything around us, animate or otherwise  https://x.com/theothersuzu/status/1914284789873401870

One’s treatment of AI is the equivalent to one’s treatment of waiters/waitresses.