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by nonameiguess
897 days ago
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Is there any meaningful evidence out there this does anything for anyone? You may or may not get enthustiast responses here, but how representative are these people how do we know it's not astroturfing, and how do we know they'll really get any long-term increase in life satisfaction out of a service like this? I will freely admit I'm way outside of the target market and maybe I'm badly out-of-touch with what modern men need to feel fulfilled. I'm past a decade of marriage at this point and haven't been consistently girlfriendless since I was starting out high school 30 years ago. But when I think back over the decades about what makes having a human partner gratifying and worthwhile, it certainly isn't exchanging text messages or even photographs. Even aside from physical contact and consistently having sex when possible, you've got starting a family, sharing responsibilities for taking care of a mutually owned household, a person to experience things with over an entire lifetime who you consistently feel you can count on and rely upon if it comes to it. My wife went through serious alcoholism problems for a while, losing a job and becoming hospitalized twice. I went though severe spinal degeneration in my 30s and couldn't even consistently dress myself for a few years. I don't know if either of us would have gotten through it without the other. There is simply no replacement when going through hardship like this for having another human who loves you that you know you can rely upon no matter how hard circumstances get. What you get out of long-term human social bonding is just not something you can replace with an LLM, no matter how good they get. |
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> What you get out of long-term human social bonding is just not something you can replace with an LLM, no matter how good they get.
Most of my interactions with friends and family are via text messaging. I have close friends that I haven't seen in person for ages because they moved across the country/world and getting to visit all of them is expensive. I realize that not everyone socializes like I do, but for the contingent of people who do, I wouldn't be surprised if this is sufficient, especially as a replacement for those ancillary friends that you just chat about hobbies with.