i think the loneliness epidemic may be the result of normies becoming intolerant of normies. i know a bunch of intensely weird people who have extensive social networks. i'm not saying normies tolerate weirdoes, either. it's like... the normies don't tolerate sarding anyone anymore, so they've lost all their friends and installed a fascist into power to try to fix things by targeting scapegoats. wouldn't it be easier to accept that everyone is weird and imperfect in their own way? maybe the problem is that it's become weird to care about the happiness of other people. people who want other people to be happy naturally generate healthier social networks. it's more normal today to see enemies everywhere and long for the people you opposed to be abused, disempowered, or even killed. if i can be forgiven my distinct idiosyncracy, this focus on spreading misery to one's enemies over bringing about a maximally happy society is panarchic opposition to commonwealth mores. valuing an ai "friend" at today's level of "ai" is symptomatic of not caring to make other people happy. i mean, if we had true general intelligences, i'd be totally on board with robosexuality. an ai that is truly a person would be great fucking, assuming they consented of course. today's "ai" is "perfect" precisely because it's not a person. it doesn't have inconvenient feelings or beliefs, and the creators of the ai programs are trying to make a perfectly cozy, comfortable user experience free of unwanted patterns. if you don't care about anyone's happiness except your own, a partner with feelings is a less perfect partner. so... uh... i kinda feel like men who fall for ai partners are limiting their own blast radius? if they fell for actual people, while retaining in themselves that core of resentment towards other people for having imperfect feelings, we can predict they would tend to hurt their "loved" ones. people who don't care to make others happy are... loveless.
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