Hey deserve any listeners, so for those who have been around in the podcast for a long time, you know that I have been thinking a lot about loneliness.

Even before the pandemic, I knew that it was a problem around the globe and a lot of people are suffering from it and a lot of the

advice that is given online for curing loneliness is insufficient or trite in some way and I set out to try to figure out if I could

get my head around or hands around the problem and the more I looked into it the more elusive it got

there's a lot of roads to loneliness a lot of factors I mean we can look at the big

things like people on their phones too much and that sort of thing but that's too

simplistic I think that there's just this general trend that's been happening for

decades that is resulting in a lot of loneliness.

And not just suffering from loneliness, of course,

but depression and demoralization and health problems

and increase in addiction and suicide.

These are all outgrowths of the increase in loneliness that's been

demonstrated by the evidence.

The other thing that I think about sometimes is artificial intelligence and AI. I remember the movie Her

with Joaquin Phoenix not too long ago and seeing that in the theater and at the time thinking well yeah I mean

we've known about that sort of possibility of an AI robot of some kind that can be a companion or can seem very human and of course at some point in the distant future that'll be a reality but probably not in our lifetime and then all of a sudden

this AI explosion happens this last year and of course AI has been in development for decades, but in terms of its commercial use has exploded in the past year.

And as I'm using it, and I use it a lot, The other day, I was just daydreaming about how horrible the

scripts were for the Star Wars sequel movies, you know, episode 7, 8, 9, and I was thinking, I wonder if AI could write a better

script than, oh no, no, what I was thinking was, was the Obewan Canobe TV show on Disney Plus.

I think about how horrible the script was for that and I wondered if AI could write a better script and so I I you know typed in a bunch of

prompts into chat gp T 3.5 and and it gave a much better script and I thought you know of course there's

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