petrol_sniff_king

Well, I don't want to restrict kitchen knives either; I don't really see the point. So, I guess we agree it was kind of a stupid thing to bring up.

If you don't want to restrict kitchen knives, why would you enter them into a discussion about "things ailing society" then? What point did you think you were making?

No, you have concerns about not banning kitchen knives, razor blades, and self-help books. I wanna hear the argument.

I don't know. You're the one who brought it up, I thought you'd be the one to know.

Where is this epidemic of kitchen knives being misused?

I mean. Okay.
Can't force a horse to drink, I guess.

You should leave and reflect on your behavior. That would be nice.

Nobody has to do anything. But this is fun, see? We're pro fun around here.

And yet some people do.

The idea that a robot which pretends to be your friend might satiate some people's desire to have a friend is not that deep a cut. It's barely even interesting.

I'm sure it's a lot of things. The bottom line, though, is that the fruit is too sweet. And so you get a dynamic very similar to veganism, climate change, health-conscious eating, anti-smoking, etc., where people want to behold their fruits without feeling like they're villains for it—criticism of smoking is to criticise a person for smoking as well, you see? It becomes like a moral failing of their character. It's just insecurity.

Bitcoin didn't really catch on because, besides money laundering schemes, it doesn't really have a purpose. But AI has lots of purposes. It eases the burden of writing, it can do your homework for you, it's a better search engine because google sabotaged their own, it can generate DnD assets for "free"—and lastly, this is a really big one, it fills an emotional niche in lonely people.

I can't promise that in a world where people didn't live their whole lives in suburban houses, in small bedrooms, on their computer all day with remarkably few friends, that people wouldn't take to gen AI as much as they do, but it's certainly not helping.

Oh, I understood the sentiment just fine. I'm asking why it's unintelligible. We'll ban hammers so that people won't need head stitches...?

So long as we're doing petty jabs, maybe you should have run this run-on sentence through an AI grammar checker.

*points at clown* "You look like a clown!"

That's a good one, mate. I'll have to remember that.