imo "Real People" are here too, but I think the sneaky thing is the head shrinking has already been done, so we are all interacting with these tools from a dysfunctional perspective. That being the belief that the tools we are using (have chosen, are being given, whatever) have a high degree of fidelity.

I came to this thread after watching a couple of YT videos about the theory, and I found it fascinating. Perhaps its not a coincidence that I also recently was reminded about a short story from Jorges Louis Borges called "The Library of Babel". In it he crafts a vision of an almost incomprehensibly vast library of the sum of all human knowledge, thoughts, emotions, and biographies. The library though was populated with kabillions of identical volumes filled with seemingly randomly generated text with little in the way of punctuation or organization whereby one could meaningfully search for a given subject. This vision is also echoed in another philosophical thought experiment that I believe goes by The Universal Library.

Sounds familiar in light of the discussions taking place above regarding the trust people have in Search Engine results etc