Hot take: maaaaybe we shouldn't have put so much money and effort into cultivating the best liars on the planet to lie to us all the time.
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I mean actors. Like: it is totally wild how much of my training data for human emotion is fake. I have watched so much TV. All of those actors were pretending to have emotions, with various levels of success. And that's where I learned what humans displaying emotion look like!
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And: as #MeToo
goes on we are increasingly learning that some of the best liars on the planet are... not good people? Maybe even incapable of empathy? 
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Also: men like Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump are Boomers, the first generation to be raised by TV, and by all accounts collectively fucked up in some important way (I lean narcissism, following http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ ).
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More data points: the narcissistic and abusive members of estranged parents' forums, who according to
@Issendai are also Boomers (age ~55-70, so born between ~1950 and 1965): http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/index.html …, h/t@Malcolm_OceanShow this thread
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