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Comment by oblio | Hacker News Reader

Amusingly, after a lot of pain this might push us back to the real world :-))

I was wondering about this. Maybe we were not really meant to spend so much time communicating through screens. And if all we do is communicate through screens, does it even matter if it’s AI, a dog, or a person? I know people will jump in and say yes it matters, but if I was never going to meet the person on the other side of a comment it’s hard to get worked up about it.

A good point. I noticed that every time I see a condescending comment like "The war in Ukraine is totally the fault of the West, NATO should have stopped expanding..." etc., some neurons in my brain get activated and I feel obliged to correct this obvious crap using several reasonable and researched argument. But if these are all bots, who cares...

It makes me think if people en masse realize most of their online interactions are with LLMs, they might as well stop using these social platforms for engagement and just switch to totally passive consumption, which gives even less satisfaction and more frustration IMO.

> But if these are all bots, who cares...

I agree, but I’ll add if it’s people you’re never going to meet, also who cares…

At least when it comes to human interaction (like irl forums etc), I think it has a good chance of happening.

damn you are getting downvoted so hard! folks really don't want to leave screens

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