[ Doubt ]

I was just explaining to my 13 year old daughter daughter today why we never get gas at BP stations. And I know the station owners have no culpability, but I wouldn’t get gas at a place that flies a Nazi or confederate flag, either. Fuck them. They know whose name is on the sign.

I also never stop at Exxon over the Valdez and that was 35 years ago. Fuck these companies. I may only be one person, but I have a long memory.

With it open so you can leave little staple-stikas across his face. (Need good aim or just to beat him senseless first…)

I just saw a group is going to start doing custom feeds with ads inserted. I blocked the account and every single sucker who comes in to say congrats and how excited they are about it. Fuck the lot of them. That said, that’s a third party, but also an example of what they could do.

Marriage and kids did really help my depression. Not 100% but pretty well. I feel like I’ve accomplished many of the things in life I wanted. But it took 35 and a failed marriage to get there.

We’ve had jerking off tens of thousands of years. It’s not a solution to either.

I’m about to live in a camper full of paper books. I hate everything tech has done in the last twenty years.

It’s not sentient and has no agenda. It’s fair to say suggest that advertise themselves as “AI companions” appeal to / prey on lonely people.

It’s not a scam unless it purports to be a real person.

Note that these studies aren’t suggesting that heavy ChatGPT usage directly causes loneliness. Rather, it suggests that lonely people are more likely to seek emotional bonds with bots

The important question here is: do lonely people seek out interaction with AI or does AI create lonely people? The article clearly acknowledges this and then treats the latter like the likely conclusion. It definitely merits greater study.