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I'm not sure if you are sarcastic, but your definition of "ideal world" feels very different from mine. What you describe sounds as close to the scifi concept of wireheading as I can imagine to get without brain surgery.


I'm being tongue in cheek, for sure. Let's pretend I said "ideally" instead, as in, "ideally the product would function this way".

I admittedly wouldn't be the target audience for this concept, nor would I take up wireheading. When I see the huge success of Character.ai or the above SocialAI though, I'm really convinced there's a market segment of people younger than us who get a lot out of communicating with virtual "friends".




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