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I can see why they would do it, but I think it is sick and twisted. We already have a loneliness epidemic among the population. We already are shirking our resp

I can see why they would do it, but I think it is sick and twisted. We already have a loneliness epidemic among the population. We already are shirking our responsibility by building robots to talk to our elders and we already spend too much time looking at screens. It would be better to go and befriend an older person, give them real face to face time with a person and a new friendship, than to talk to an AI replay of something that once was. I think it will lead to more turning inward, more isolation, and less human contact. None of those things are healthy or good. Sure it might help a few people, but I think it will hurt far more; including the young people who miss out on the stories & friendship of those who've lived through so much.

csharptwdec19 6y ago
> We already have a loneliness epidemic among the population. The loneliness epidemic is seen by companies as something to be exploited, not corrected.
jcelerier 6y ago
who would have known that The Naked Sun was actually the most prescient Asimov novel ?
LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
What if I told you that in my interactions with people in the past years, I more often than not doubted their ability to have own independent thoughts, instead of acting like some automaton, echoing standard answers gained from their filter bubbles, or otherwise conditioned in. Not to mention being bland/somehow dumbed down, like under the influence of some drug? (Which is no unreasonable assumption nowadays) Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA It's just another sick twist in an already distorted reality. SHRUG edit: also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie