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Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve your loneliness with an 'AI friend'?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/15/mark-zuckerberg-loneliness-epidemic-ai-friends
7•speckx•9h ago

Comments

EDEdDNEdDYFaN•9h ago
no
Koshima•9h ago
I’m not sure if I trust any billionaire to solve loneliness, but at least he is building platforms that keep people connected...
beardyw•9h ago
Yes, Zuk no longer cares about money, he just wants me to be happy.
incomingpain•9h ago
No, but shouldn't we be happy that he's trying to help the problem?
ben_w•8h ago
I don't even trust him to solve loneliness by using his algorithms to keep me connected with my actual real friends — refresh default feed, different random subset of things they've posted in the last month or so.

I *definitely* do not trust him to solve loneliness even if the AI was good, because every third post-shaped block is an advert, and can you imagine a real life event where every third sentence is your interlocutor trying to sell you random stuff? Huh, that was a comedy sketch nearly 50 years ago already: https://youtu.be/qe7n7a82HWw?si=SJy-SFNaArmLDAR7

And I don't trust the AI to be any good. I like what they do, but honestly, they remind me a lot of my mother's Alzheimer's.

taylodl•8h ago
I trust Zuck to do what he thinks will make him the most money - he doesn't care if what he's peddling is solving problems or creating them, so long as you're using it. That's not even a judgement statement, what other behavior do you expect from a capitalist?

TalwarAI: A suite of autonomous security agents

https://test.pypi.org/project/talwarai-beta/
1•handfuloflight•5m ago•0 comments

Apple Says Fortnite for iOS Isn't Blocked Worldwide, Just the U.S.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/16/apple-fortnite-ios-not-blocked-worldwide/
3•smileybarry•10m ago•1 comments

Typograph: Prompt to Font

https://typograph.studio/en
1•handfuloflight•13m ago•0 comments

Harvard bought a Magna Carta copy for $27. It turned out to be an original

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/15/harvard-magna-carta-1300/83643266007/
2•rmason•19m ago•0 comments

Core War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
2•michalpleban•21m ago•0 comments

Reddit is down

2•tom1337•21m ago•1 comments

Yeast-Based LLM Research

1•daly•22m ago•0 comments

Berkshire Hathaway Inc Q4 2024 vs. Q1 2025 13F Holdings Comparison

https://13f.info/13f/000095012325005701-berkshire-hathaway-inc-q1-2025
1•kamaraju•22m ago•0 comments

How to Split Ranges in C++23 and C++26

https://www.cppstories.com/2025/ranges_split_chunk/
2•ibobev•27m ago•0 comments

Leica M10 Battery Teardown and Reverse Engineering

https://tokilabs.co/tech/
1•k2enemy•28m ago•0 comments

The Digital Panopticon Nightmare

https://www.thedissident.news/the-digital-panopticon-nightmare/
3•anigbrowl•30m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Did anyone else see an avalanche of old email appear in Gmail?

1•DamnInteresting•31m ago•0 comments

Party Till the Break of 10 P.M

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/style/earlybirds-club-dance-party.html
2•whack•33m ago•0 comments

On-Demand: AI Agent Automation

https://on-demand.io/
1•handfuloflight•35m ago•0 comments

U.S. Loses Last Triple-A Credit Rating

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/u-s-loses-last-triple-a-credit-rating-bfcbae5d
7•mudil•38m ago•1 comments

FDA clears first blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer's

https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/16/alzheimers-fujirebio-fda-approval/
1•pseudolus•38m ago•0 comments

Really Really Simple "Pure CSS" Squircles

https://gist.github.com/pouyakary/136fafc75a14abd867e0100856add5a0
3•pmkary•42m ago•0 comments

After HTTPS: Indicating Risk Instead of Security (2019)

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7403/
2•transpute•42m ago•0 comments

Our Idea of Happiness Has Gotten Shallow

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/magazine/happiness-history-living-well.html
1•gmays•47m ago•0 comments

Dept Homeland Security in vetting process for immigrant reality TV show

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/politics/dhs-vetting-immigrant-reality-tv-show
3•jeffwass•47m ago•0 comments

HMPL v3.0: Small template language for displaying UI from server to client

https://github.com/hmpl-language/hmpl/releases/tag/3.0.0
3•todsacerdoti•49m ago•0 comments

Peter Lax, Pre-Eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 98

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.html
4•donohoe•49m ago•1 comments

Beyond the Gang of Four: Practical Design Patterns for Modern AI Systems

https://www.infoq.com/articles/practical-design-patterns-modern-ai-systems/
1•rbanffy•50m ago•0 comments

AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals

https://nautil.us/ai-could-help-humans-understand-animals-1211108/
1•rbanffy•51m ago•0 comments

Slopaganda

https://dbushell.com/2025/05/15/slopaganda/
5•ambigious7777•51m ago•0 comments

Implementing a Toy Optimizer (2022)

https://pypy.org/posts/2022/07/toy-optimizer.html
2•grep_it•57m ago•0 comments

Why are Truffles so expensive? Are they worth it? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKddfnuQtd4
2•lawrenceyan•1h ago•0 comments

SDL3 examples: Full game and app demos

https://examples.libsdl.org/SDL3/demo/
3•xeonmc•1h ago•0 comments

Amazon-owned Zoox issues recall following robotaxi crash

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/amazon-owned-zoox-issues-recall-following-robotaxi-crash/
3•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

China Drops to No. 3 Holder of Treasuries, Falling Behind UK

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/china-falls-to-no-2-holder-of-treasuries-with-uk-on-the-rise
5•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•0 comments