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Zuckerberg: "The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15"
- nothercastle 2y agoHow do you even manage 15 good friends as an adult? That would be 1 friend a day rotating every 2 weeks. Seems like a lot
- 8200_unit 2y agotypically in groups. You can see multiple friends at once
- nothercastle 2y agoThat helps but managing 3 friend groups at a time Is a huge commitment even for an extrovert. It might be feasible as a college or high-school kid but not as an adult with kids
- bloomca 2y agoIt's possible, but you need to be very social. Basically you do group activities every few weeks, some people are friends but live further so you meet them rarely, and some friends either need to live very close to you or share some activities (kids clubs, maybe some fitness activity, maybe work, etc). My sister has 10+ friends she actively maintains. I have 2 :)
- nothercastle 2y agoI have like 4 close 4 mid and 4 far away friends and then probably another dozen work/activity friends but I don’t think I could maintain them all as close friends just too much upkeep.
- celticninja 2y agoMark has no friends so he assume no one has friends so he makes AI friends. I can see this having no adverse effects within, say the incel culture, no adverse affects at all.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoHow do you know that Mark has no friends?
- owebmaster 2y agoI would guess he has zero friends by the way he sees friendship
- pona-a 2y agoGame theory?
- shric 2y agoHe likely has people pretending to be his friends, much like the AI friends he proposes.
- rsynnott 2y agoThat he thinks that this is a good idea would be a pretty strong indicator, in that it implies that he doesn't grasp, at a fundamental level, what friends are.
- bediger4000 2y agoAgreed. He's projecting.
- moralestapia 2y agoZero substance on these comments.
- celticninja 2y agoLook he is richer than everyone else he knows. He hangs around with employees all day, they are subservient to him. He doesn't know real friendship because all his relationships are with his wealth.
- Bolwin 2y ago
- dirtyhippiefree 2y agoThe man assumes that we want friends who don’t actually exist. Astounding.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoSpeak for yourself
- dirtyhippiefree 2y agoI humbly apologize. I’m definitely not going to stop you from talking to your imaginary friends.
- andrewstuart 2y ago“Demand for friends”. Describing friends as a supply and demand market business transaction is well … unusual.
- EA-3167 2y agoEvery time I hear him speak I can't help, but imagine him licking his eyes like gecko. He's such a deeply bizarre and unappealing man, and possibly the last person on Earth I want to hear about friendship from. I certainly don't want whatever his idea of a friend is.
- lm28469 2y agoYeah but have you seen his cool sunglasses? And he told Joe Rogan he's into bow hunting, such a cool manly man dude bro!
- nancyminusone 2y ago"They are now trying to colonize every minute of your life" - Bo Burnham
- luotuoshangdui 2y ago3 friends is a lot.
- randomNumber7 2y agoIt probably depends on how you define "friend".
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- dirtyhippiefree 2y agoOther discussion on same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860755
- proc0 2y agoI don't think it's there yet. If we knew how the brain's architecture produces consciousness and we could recreate that in software, I would be open minded to have AI replace human interaction, but what Zucc is suggesting is that we build a social (or "para-social"?) relationship with a the output of tensor calculus.
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- alach11 2y agoI think this is really sick. And it's against the mission of Meta. It's possible, despite what many of these comments say, to build friendships as an adult. It just takes investment. What has helped me the most is: - Bringing connections from one context into another. For example if you have a colleague you like, your relationship can't grow closer unless you start hanging out in a non-work context. Get involved with athletic activities with them. Or if you have similar aged kids, invite them over for a play date while the adults hang out. - Combining friend hangouts. If you want 15 friends but only have time to hang with people every couple days, you don't have time to meet with people one-on-one. Organize group events like dinner parties or pot lucks. Also don't restrict these events to be just "work friends" or "pickle ball friends". Cross-pollinate groups. - Create local friends. Nothing is more convenient than friends you live next door to. We do porch wine with our neighbors on Monday nights. It takes very little effort to set up a group text and get momentum around something like this.
- djohnston 2y ago> - Combining friend hangouts. If you want 15 friends but only have time to hang with people every couple days, you don't have time to meet with people one-on-one. Organize group events like dinner parties or pot lucks. Also don't restrict these events to be just "work friends" or "pickle ball friends". Cross-pollinate groups. World's are colliding Jerry! These situations always make me sweat.
- verzali 2y agoThe answer isn't imaginary friends Mark, no matter how much AI you put it in them.
- brador 2y agoThe top Facebook bot maker software adds 2 friends when you generate a new account.