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Your current self won't like it. Your latter self won't care. It's like trying to shame a heroin addict for cheating the dopamine system. When they inject that needle, they are exactly where they want to be.


Sure, "when they inject", but the rest of the time? Generally no, they are not. This is why people DO try, if unsuccessfully, to get off of their addictions -- you don't like waking up in an alley, you don't like how broke you are, you don't like how you feel when you come down from the high, you don't like how you're hurting your family.


Yes, but will AI give you a chance to get sober and reflect? Maybe once you hit your daily usage limits :)


What happens when usage limits go away?

Way back in the day there were usage limits on everyone's internet service. Nowadays, not so much. Inference won't be expensive forever.

I mean, just Devil's Advocate, but I could see this becoming an addiction crisis like none we've ever seen in the past. Only since it wouldn't be as public, no one would really be aware of it. (Assuming most people won't broadcast what they're doing in their homes during their waking hours.)


Its OK, advertisers will pick up the tab.


Except they’re also useful idiots for a company who wants to push heroin on everyone, and has a lot of money to do so.




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