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What if socializing IRL is something you can practice with pro-social bots? Or, what if depressed people find the pressure of consequences too stressful to “ju
by theptip 2y ago
What if socializing IRL is something you can practice with pro-social bots?
Or, what if depressed people find the pressure of consequences too stressful to “just go outside and make friends”, and so the realistic options are chatbot or not enough socialization?
There are obvious nuanced issues and risks here but to distill it down to a one liner like “try to socialize IRL” is myopic.
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- barbazoo 2y agoThe solution can’t be that those people have to interact with AI instead of humans. What a shit society that would be.
- theptip 2y agoRight. As well as, or in able to. Not instead of.
- timeon 2y agoPeople need to practice with bots and are depressed because they are lacking real social interactions. They went too far to digital rabbit-hole. Now is time to log off.
- lm28469 2y agoWhat's myopic about it? That's what your brain has evolved to do over hundred thousands on years and we fucked it up in two generations... Depression skyrocketed since social medias were introduced, I very much doubt adding bots to the equation solves anything. You'd be treating the symptoms, not the cause And again, you're not going to cure obesity by eating plastic apples
- xigency 2y agoI agree with your take. Outside of how asocial and hostile society has become, there are certain people who understand more eccentric or fringe ideas and they can be quite rare. I can see how supplementing some amount of artificial conversation can keep one better primed for interacting with the (rarer) people who might be more engaging on an individual level. More of a stepping stone to realizing that other people might be interesting by finding value in human ideas.