A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem

Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by SoftTalker on Saturday August 02, 2025 @12:12PM (#44768794)

This is true where I live also. This feral subset of the homeless are ruining every nice public space that we used to have. Libraries, parks, trails. Patience and tolerance is wearing thin; everything that is tried to help them is just abused and shit on (often literally). More and more people are starting to say no, we don't want to tolerate this behavior here, if that's how you want to live then do it somewhere else.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by esseph on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:25PM (#44770025)

Reading this makes me extremely nihilistic about humanity.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by newsclues on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:46PM (#44770225)

My nihilism is exacerbated by the people who are actively making the problem worse and viciously attacking anyone who criticizes the problem or proposes solutions.

IMO some activists are exploiting homeless people and drug addicts for power and profit.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by esseph on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:51PM (#44770276)

I think your last sentence is full of shit, and I'm not even saying it's wrong.

What I am saying is that even if "activists" are doing... whatever, I kinda don't give a fuck?

These are people. Human beings. The only shit people seem to give is to get them out of their sight and make them somebody else's problem.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by newsclues on Saturday August 02, 2025 @03:02PM (#44770373)

You don't care that people exploit other humans beings for power and profit?

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-homeless-audit-spendi...

https://invisiblepeople.tv/unveiling-corruption-the-dark-rea...

You are right, the people being exploited are human beings, and rather than working to end the suffering, some people end up prolonging the suffering and creating more of it, because fixing problems ends the flow of funds and power.

You aren't refuting what I am saying, you only seem to justify corruption and incompetence because the apparent intention is noble.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by esseph on Saturday August 02, 2025 @03:08PM (#44770426)

What I'm saying is whatever "activists" are doing or saying is often an excuse for others to continue to ignore the ugly problem. This is not limited to one locality.

What I am interested in is long term support and funding for workable, humane solutions.

These things require bipartisan support at the state and federal level (rooting out many of the causes and aiding homeless prevention), and I'm pretty sure that's fucking toast.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by newsclues on Saturday August 02, 2025 @03:29PM (#44770610)

What I am saying is is there is part of the activist movement (at the top) that is either incompetent or corrupt and have no interest in solving problems efficiently and often make them worse, because the incentives are not aligned. Problem solving would cut off revenue and salaries.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by esseph on Saturday August 02, 2025 @04:10PM (#44770957)

You're talking about a tiny group of people, inconsequential in the grand scheme. They are irrelevant distractions.

Shipping people around the country sure as fuck isn't helping.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by badpun on Saturday August 02, 2025 @05:02PM (#44771447)

A side note, but I don't think all homeless are helpable. Some just have some kind of self-destruction about them and are beyond helping, unless they really want to start living differently. I personally know one such guy - a combination of bad upbringing, big ego, a defiant character (that got him fired from every job) has set him on a path that ultimately made his own family kick him out to the streets.

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Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem by fzeroracer on Saturday August 02, 2025 @04:06PM (#44770931)

If my fellow Americans hated the rich people that are responsible for all of these homeless individuals half as much as they do said homeless then American wouldn't be half as fucked as it is right now.

The homeless problem is all downstream of shit like the Sacklers pushing opioids and creating millions of addicts for profit. Yet they avoided jail and even can start up new businesses.

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