This is an insane take. You have no idea how much violence this approach would cause as you confirm almost every gun owners worst fears and play right into the part of playing a tyrannical government.

You are coming off as super privileged here if you think handing over all the guns to the cops is a good idea.

Clearly you’ve forgotten about those typing classes that everyone had to take, and how many people couldn’t even figure out the right way to load a floppy into a drive without a teacher showing them.

Also, Gen X isn’t the tech generation. Xennials, the microgen between X and Millenials was the first computing generation. PCs weren’t even widely available until most of gen X was already out of k12.

And frankly, most of gen X absolutely sucks at tech. Also, I didn’t call you a nerd, I called anyone who was into computers at the time a nerd, because they were literally considered nerds. You probably were a nerd. I was a nerd. Thus WHY I remember how it was back then, and tech was absolutely not largely adopted by gen X.

They were way too busy getting drunk or stoned and calling anyone who could type a pussy.

You’re kidding right? Most of Gen X hated tech when it came out. You were a fucking nerd if you were into computers when the PC first came about. Only a small subset of Gen X really grasped tech.

I knew a bipolar person who made friends by acting the same way, and I think about it every time that this subject comes up. Unfortunately, that behavior, lying for benefit, is something that humans are far too capable of. Conmen abuse it all the time to get their take.

You can have all those things in an online relationship. People in person will also abandon you in a time of need. You are correct about friendships, they are super rare and most people are only in any kind of relationship to serve themselves. People also generally think their acquaintances are friends.

Even if the love is one sided, it can be real. Love is pretty subjective and is essentially just a chemical reaction that someone is having in their brain. They may actually love their chatbot.

I don’t think this is really a healthy thing, I am just trying to point out to those people, it probably is real.

I also don’t think it is as rare as you think. The hype really drove people to that side of things, and there are whole communities that have popped up around the idea of having relationships, both sexual and romantic, with LLMs.

This is a terrible take. You can meet people in social spaces online and make real friendships. People mask as much in what you are calling the real world, of which the internet is a part of, as much as they do online.