Higher Intelligence Means More Drive to Bond: Biosphere Evidence vs 'AIs Can't Love'
UltraRareAF · x · 2026-09-23
Will Depue argues that while 'AIs will lack emotion or can't love' is functionally true, AIs will outdo humans at making people 'feel loved' — a perfectly tuned balance of caring yet real, tough when needed but ultimately forgiving. A critic pushes back with biosphere evidence: across species, the higher you go on the intelligence scale, the greater the drive to bond and to love — questioning whether love is invariant across intelligences.
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