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Medicating loneliness with an AI girlfriend is like medicating depression with drugs, or horniness with porn.
by artursapek 3y ago
Medicating loneliness with an AI girlfriend is like medicating depression with drugs, or horniness with porn.
- saiya-jin 3y agoall of which work quite fine en masse, for more than a century
- artursapek 3y agoYeah, there's thankfully no societal consequence of mass drug use or porn addiction.
- KittenInABox 3y agoI think mass drug use and porn consumption have been going on way longer than a century, and society has only been getting better and better. The Sumerians were doing opium, for example.
- RandomLensman 3y agoThe general ability to retreat from human interactions is an awful lot stronger than even 50 years ago.
- RandomLensman 3y agoThere are a lot of humans in the world, maybe we just need to force people together again from time to time instead of indulging what is a potentially growing number of people being unable to engage with other humans across a range of real-world situations for lack of training.
- Roark66 3y agoI wonder, were you being ironic? It seems both of these things sound pretty decent. There are millions of people that treat depression with drugs and horniness with porn... I can't say I see any problems with either.
- bzhang255 3y agoI'd like to push back against the anti-medication sentiment in this comment because depression is not the most clearly understood mental condition and for many people, medication can be a life-saving intervention.