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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 — just as an earlier generation of research suggested that lonelier people spend more time on social media.
My heuristic for HN is that when commenters focus on the headline, they almost never have actually read the article they are commenting on ;)
It's kind of irritating the way you are minimizing the "pros" here (and you aren't the only one at HN who has done this recently). There are people who found their parents and siblings thanks to 23 and Me. I found my father and my half sister. Maybe it's not important to you, but there are people out there who are willing to "pay" a lot to find out who they are. I appreciate that to you it may not feel like a good trade, but please have the empathy to understand that for others, it is.
Plants don't have an immune system, at least the way we normal think of one. As far as we know, there isn't a way to "vaccinate" them against diseases. Maybe that will change with molecular techniques, but not today.
I found my half sister and biological father thanks to 23 and Me. Maybe cases like this will help you understand. Some people are willing to "pay" a lot to find out who they are.
I appreciate you sharing your experience, I just wish you could have done it without this bit.
Of course this is not a problem specific to those in tech. It's just that we are the group that built the prison we now all find ourselves in.
Dad ended up buying an Atari 800 instead of a 99/4A. It was a good decision.
The last KFOG KaBoom was in 2010 (in the parking lot at Candlestick). KFOG, the station, went off the air in 2019.
Passive safety usually is defined as reducing the risk of injury or death to vehicle occupants in an accident AND also protecting other road users. You left off the second part.