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bebeskidson We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

You took "a 39 year old" and felt targeted. Where there's one there's more, it doesn't need to be all to be statistically significant.

Society collapses when the capable are helpless. There's no bandwidth to help the actual needy when enough of the normies need caretaking too.

Old puritans in government and corporate would just lop off the tail but that's actual people who mean something to their useful people.

bebeskidson We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

The problem is the people who don't like that policy debating it on social media isolated in filter bubbles owned by the rich who benefit from such isolation

We're the adults now but prefer the responsibility of kids still

Anyway, gonna go watch the new Marvel joint.

bebeskidson We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

Parks, libraries are cheap and free and they're dead where I live, a metro area of 2+ million

The only people I see out are families with grandpa in tow to pay for a mediocre overpriced wood fired pizza.

No one has analog skills. Just social analysis skills. Very briefly dated a 39 year old who admitted she had never baked, boiled, or microwaved her own potato. Already got 2 kids.

We reach endgame sooner in life. We grind all the content immediately because we aren't growing the potatoes and sewing the clothes, weaving textiles.