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I agree that "the internet will always be filled with real people: looking for each other". The question is will they be able to successfully find each other, a

I agree that "the internet will always be filled with real people: looking for each other". The question is will they be able to successfully find each other, and how can they be sure they have?

koolala 10mo ago
by using the internet or by using a website? if we included digital telephone would the answer be getting their phone number? i wish hosting a website was as easy as hosting a phone call.
- schwartzworld 10mo ago
  Hosting a website might be easier now. Services like netlify make it pretty simple
quantummagic 10mo ago
Presumably, the value in finding each other will be the key to determining you have found someone real. If you literally can't tell the difference, then what does it matter? But many of us believe that there are important differences, that do matter, and that the dead internet can never truly provide.
- koolala 10mo ago
  it depends if you want real connection. imagine if this reply was a video call. wave emoji
- al_borland 10mo ago
  If the connection is real, one would think the people would eventually want to meet. We've all seen the stories of people being catfished and how devastating it is for some people. How long is an acceptable amount of time for someone to engage in an online relationship (of any kind, not necessarily romantic), before finding out it's been a chatbot the whole time? I just met someone, I think last year, who I've known via forums and chat for over 20 years now. I was looking for a place to watch the eclipse and totality was going right through his backyard. Imagine if I drove down there it was just some random address that an AI gave me after 20 years of talking. I'd lose my mind. Some people's only friends are people they know online, through games or forums. Imagine finding out your only friend in the world isn't even real. That's very dark. This seems like something the bots should have to disclose upfront. I hate not knowing if I'm talking to a real person or not. Imagine spending hours in an online debate with what is ultimately a chatbot... what a waste. If I want to talk to a chatbot, I'd go to a chatbot. There is a reason we are here in the comments instead of just pasting the link into ChatGPT and going back and forth with it.
8organicbits 10mo ago
This ties in well with the Dark Forest theory of the Internet: that the public Internet becomes dead while humans flee to hidden, invite-only, private spaces. https://charlottedune.substack.com/p/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet https://charlottedune.substack.com/p/the-dark-forest-theory-...

I agree that "the internet will always be filled with real people: looking for each other". The question is will they be able to successfully find each other, and how can they be sure they have?

koolala 10mo ago

by using the internet or by using a website? if we included digital telephone would the answer be getting their phone number? i wish hosting a website was as easy as hosting a phone call.

schwartzworld 10mo ago
Hosting a website might be easier now. Services like netlify make it pretty simple

quantummagic 10mo ago

Presumably, the value in finding each other will be the key to determining you have found someone real. If you literally can't tell the difference, then what does it matter? But many of us believe that there are important differences, that do matter, and that the dead internet can never truly provide.

koolala 10mo ago
it depends if you want real connection. imagine if this reply was a video call. wave emoji
al_borland 10mo ago
If the connection is real, one would think the people would eventually want to meet. We've all seen the stories of people being catfished and how devastating it is for some people. How long is an acceptable amount of time for someone to engage in an online relationship (of any kind, not necessarily romantic), before finding out it's been a chatbot the whole time? I just met someone, I think last year, who I've known via forums and chat for over 20 years now. I was looking for a place to watch the eclipse and totality was going right through his backyard. Imagine if I drove down there it was just some random address that an AI gave me after 20 years of talking. I'd lose my mind. Some people's only friends are people they know online, through games or forums. Imagine finding out your only friend in the world isn't even real. That's very dark. This seems like something the bots should have to disclose upfront. I hate not knowing if I'm talking to a real person or not. Imagine spending hours in an online debate with what is ultimately a chatbot... what a waste. If I want to talk to a chatbot, I'd go to a chatbot. There is a reason we are here in the comments instead of just pasting the link into ChatGPT and going back and forth with it.

8organicbits 10mo ago

This ties in well with the Dark Forest theory of the Internet: that the public Internet becomes dead while humans flee to hidden, invite-only, private spaces. https://charlottedune.substack.com/p/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet https://charlottedune.substack.com/p/the-dark-forest-theory-...