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Is oxytocin the new dopamine?Prior to GPT-3, the most powerful AI in the world was arguably the human behavior prediction system that Facebook built. In retrospect the actual AI part of this will probably appear rather crude; the true innovation making that system so powerful is how it manipulates human beings by triggering targeted dopamine releases to reward behavior that is in accordance with corporate or political goals. Humans’ inclination towards social engagement is a backdoor vulnerability which has been used to hack our nervous systems with devastating consequences.There are holes in that system, however. Everything that happens on social media happens more or less in the open, so it is observable to others when someone has been manipulated towards an end that does not match what ...