Blundered or outright stole the idea of?

Be careful, zuckerberg's AI friends will come after you. Also, zucky thinks you should make more friends, get on that.

If you look under the hood, it's just authoritarianism. If the headline read, local wealthy man demands you make more friends, you'd think he's a nutjob.

It's that ultra-conservative, nutty religious mantra, "you should live your life, how I say."

This reminds me a bit of Asimov's [1]Solarians [fandom.com]:

> Eventually, realizing that Solaria might get as crowded as Nexon, they became independent. Strict immigration and birth control were imposed. Population was maintained at twenty thousand, with all the good land divided into estates thousands to tens of thousands square kilometers. Robots numbered at two hundred million. Every person had all the goods and robotic servants he or she could possibly want.

> Within a few centuries, the problems with their peculiar social system became obvious. Solarians abhorred personal contact, making procreation harder and harder. Also, despite the Solarians viewing their society as perfect, no other world wanted to adopt it, leading to growing despair. This led to a combination of low birth rate and many early deaths. The population dropped to five thousand, and the tendency showed no sign of stopping. Contacts with other planets became rare.

By the book 'Foundation and Earth', the Solarians ended up being super weird. Geniuses that keep only robots for company and often kill anyone that enters their land.

[1] https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Solarian_(Foundation)

'empathy free android' is a little harsh...on androds

> Sweet suffering fuck, is there anything this empathy free android will not try to wring coin out of?>.

Unfortunately, this is kind of the natural evolution of the Internet. First we were happy to discover other people across the world. Then we were happy to discover other people online via video and live chat. Then we started ignoring real people. Then OnlyFans came along, and we started paying for female attention. We've basically been living in our computers for years. It' was probably inevitable that someone was going to profit filling that void with artificial people. It's a huge moneymaking opportunity

I hope others realize how dehumanizing this is and actually DO something about it instead of just going along with it. Keep in mind that we STILL have mobile providers touting how "connected" they keep people through their mobile devices. This is what the algorithms and echo chambers are leading us to. Social media and video chats are not real connection, but people allow it as a substitution for face to face because it's easier than real relationships. AI "relationships" will be easier as well. “Char

All the billionaires are mentally ill. It's not a natural human condition, and clearly leads in most cases to monomania, megalomania and some degree of sociopathy. They come to believe the size of their bank accounts makes them into gods.

It's why I think we should ban the concept entirely. After the first $100 million, maybe adjusted every ten years for inflation, you don't get anything more. Sure, maybe you don't become the big innovator, but honestly, a good deal of the time after the initial invention (if they actually invented anything at all, which with Zuckerberg is debatable), it normally ends up in some sort of Edison's lab scenario, where the big rich "inventor" is paying actual researchers to create things that the big rich "inventor" can claim as their own.

In the ultra wealthy simply become enablers of tyrants. Think Crassus in the First Triumvirate, an equal on paper, but in reality a background figure whose wealth served Caesar and Pompey the Great more than it ever served Crassus himself.

AI cannot replace human human touch or smell. Human touch is inversely correlated to anxiety, depression and stress.

Human touch calms us and slows down our heartbeat. It lowers blood pressure and cortisol. It triggers the release of oxytocin, (the hormone known for promoting emotional bonding to others.)

Humans are constantly smelling themselves and other people. A study in 2020 revealed that people subconsciously smell members of the same sex more often than those of different sex.

Researchers have found evi

We are seeing the reality of concepts from 50 years ago. The personal computer was supposed to be this really. Your friend. The information economy is another glossy term from the past. We have it now. Information moves around, people add value, and money changes hands. All that was supposed to lead to a utopian world of less work, more play. Well here we are, and it's a logical extension to say Big Tech wants to replace all your human interactions... nobody seemed to think about the cost of this in terms o

> I mean, most of us knew this was the vision of the tech-bros, that all our interactions would be through their technology.

To be more exact -- through the platform they own and control .

This is the comment I came for

> Luigi has admirers for a reason.

To be fair, I only picked Luigi because Mario is a psycho that jumps on turtles for fun. I can't believe some people call him "super'.

> From TFA: “The very platforms that have led to our social isolation and being chronically online are now posing a solution to the loneliness epidemic,” said Meghana Dhar, a former Instagram executive who thinks AI friends will only make such problems worse. “It almost seems like the arsonist coming back and being the fireman.”

Firefighter arson [1]is a definite thing [wikipedia.org]. Usually discovery lead to dismissal or prosecution. Not here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighter_arson

That is not a reach. It is basic math using the statements he made.

> “The average American I think has, it’s fewer than three friends, three people they’d consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more, I think it’s like 15 friends,”

If you have at most 3 friends and you propose that AI can meet the demand of "15 friends", well it turns out that 12 AI "friends" would be the most of your friends. This doesn't seem to be much of a stretch of a headline at all....

> Google definitely knows all about me, so I would think that Facebook (though they have access to a lot less information) would know something too.

Facebook knows a lot more about you that you think. For one thing Facebook buys all the data feeds and stores about people that are available to be bought. Personal information is their stock in trade and they hoover it up on everybody, even people who have never had a Facebook account.

I recently started seeing a therapist -- protected information under HIPAA -- and the only contact I have had with him is through texting, Gmail and supposedly locked down video platform. He showed up as a friend suggestion o

I once downloaded my Facebook data. It claimed my gender was female. It makes me wonder how valuable their data is.

"Facebook delenda est."

> "The average American I think has, it’s fewer than three friends, three people they’d consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more, I think it’s like 15 friends," he said in the interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. ==== Based upon just what measurement, exactly? Facebook "friends". Is there some study backing this presumably weak metric up?

He is saying that he had fewer than three friends. Maybe his wife likes him.

"Involuntary Humans" - they already exist, they call themselves furries, and they are FORCING the government to spend BILLIONS in tax dollars on things like litter boxes and fake cat ears, which according to my research are now REQUIRED at all public schools. I mean, you don't have to wear the ears or use the litter, but still.