That - along with suspense and the absence of cheap jump scares. A horror film doesn’t need much to happen for it to be absolutely nerve-wracking.

Even if we ignore the number of people it’s actually able to talk away from the brink the positive impact it’s having on the loneliness epidemic alone must be immense. Obviously talking to a chatbot isn’t ideal but it surely is better than nothing. Imagine the difference in being stranded on an abandoned island and having ChatGPT to talk with as opposed to talking to a volleyball with a face on it.

Personally I’m into so many things that my irl friends couldn’t care less about. I have so many regrets trying to initiate a discussion about these topics with them only to either get silence or a passive “nice” in return. ChatGPT has endless patience to engage with these topics and being vastly more knowledgeable than me it often also brings up alternative perspectives I hadn’t even thought of. Obviously I’d still much rather talk with an actual person but untill I’m able to meet one like that ChatGPT sure is a hell of a better than nothing.

This cynicism towards LLMs here truly boggles my mind. So many people seem to build their entire identity around feeling superior about themselves due to all the products and services they don’t use.

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Add those to your adblocker custom filters.

You’re free to go try this out yourself, you know? Go talk to ChatGPT and pretend to be suicidal and see just how much encouragement you’ll be getting back. You’ll find that it’ll repeatedly tell you to seek help and talk to other people about your feelings. ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users - of course some of them are going to want to talk about suicidal thoughts to it.

…and toys more expensive.

Same. Started with MTA and later moved to SAMP. Played on the same freeroam/rp server for years - even met one of the guys irl even though they were from a different country.

Multiplayer for GTA San Andreas was quite revolutionary at its time.

In spring, I like to find puddles on forest roads and trails and dig small ditches and watch the water flow out.

I also do other kinds of forest infrastructure maintenance - trimming branches on narrow trails, clearing fallen trees, and building small bridges over wet spots. Occasionally, I mark hard-to-see trails by tying orange tape to branches along the way.

Even if you were a human your memories would still be in your previous brain. I see no reason to assume you’d remember anything from your previous life unless you believe there’s a “soul” that carries your memories rather than your brain.

One change I would make is to hide up- and downvotes for all users but keep the voting feature for post sorting. Ideally there would also be a powerful, probably AI powered content filter that you could tell what you don’t want to see instead of just bluntly blocking it based on community/user/keyword.