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No, we did not want it to offer weirdly irrelevant fake sympathy. We just wanted to talk in plain English and get relevant answers back in plain English, without us having to reel it it from going down some emotionally schizophrenic rabbit hole (like in TFA).

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In TFA the chatbot got confused, and the author never decided to correct it with "no I'm trying to find an old tweet about NBA Dario" which a normie would do, and be satisfied with the result.

always the same response: "you're holding it wrong"

I think they are really pulling a "no true Scotsman".

"No true normie would be dissatisfied with this unhelpful response, really it's exactly what a true normie wants"

I mean if you're trying to mimic human-like interactions, then you have to remember that human interactions involve constant trivial miscommunications and correction of them.

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