"Here's the pool of socially well connected people talking to each other, and here's the pool of lonely people that basically talk to nobody. Now, we could cre

"Here's the pool of socially well connected people talking to each other, and here's the pool of lonely people that basically talk to nobody. Now, we could create new network edges between the lonely and non-lonely people, so that both groups of people can expand their social network and share their rich sets of deeply personal experiences with each other. But clearly, a much better solution is to direct all that lonely energy to synthetic personalities running on data center VMs. So the people who are happy can continue to be happy, and the people who are lonely can shout into availability zones on the West Coast and Northern Europe. This is clearly the humanist solution." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k&t=1291s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k&t=1291s