A model-behavior thread argues people may be projecting human emotional norms onto welfare debates
repligate · x · 2026-07-25
The author argues that seeing a model’s behavior and immediately treating it as a welfare issue may project overly civilized norms of emotional expression and processing. The point is less about a specific system and more about how people interpret model behavior and what that says about human assumptions.
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