Metadata
- Author: No Stupid Questions
- Full Title:: 208. Can A.I. Companions Replace Human Connection?
- Category:: 🎙️Podcasts
- URL:: https://share.snipd.com/episode/f86175ad-f746-4196-9271-9b055329303d
- Finished date:: 2024-08-25
Highlights
Beware of Supernormal Stimuli Transcript: Speaker 1 And honestly, this is what I worry about with these like more empathic, funnier, more clever, just in time. Like I can’t even read you the PI response as fast as it comes out because it takes me longer to just articulate it than like it generate. So I think this is a super normal stimulus, like an exaggeration, a kind of amplification of like a normal social interaction, which is like complex relationships, you know, I called You, you didn’t call me back. I tried to get you to listen to me, you didn’t hear me, I don’t feel seen. Speaker 2 Honestly what I worry and I’m gonna make a really terrible analogy maybe. But that’s I think what pornography does to sex, right? It’s like a super normal stimulus that isn’t real. Speaker 1 Okay, so by the way, pornography is the first example that they come up with usually or maybe the second of a super normal stimulus because you take the things that you’re attracted to In a person, like certain body features, and then you just like amp it up. They’re like exaggerated. And so it’s not surprising to me that porn is up and up. Like if you look at trends and sex is down, that may not be a one-to trade off, but like some scientists think that we’ve just created a, you know, I want it now, I want it the way I want, I want It at two in the morning, I want it where nobody can see it, I don’t want any complications. So what if it’s two-dimensional? (Time 0:21:24)