alt Hacker NewsYou know, the funny thing is every technically minded friend if mine would apend the evening communing with a scotch and Claude if time permitted.
There was even a depressing conversation where we all figured most people are signficantly more boring to talk to than an LLM. Its fantastic if you have the luck to be surrounded by interesting people, but that is an extreme luxury i suspect.
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Sorry to say but it points more to a lack of conversational skills in you than people being less exciting than Claude.
It's not always socially permissible but I often approach others with the mindset 1) Is this person far more knowledgeable in some topic than I, or 2) Let's find an unusual quirk about them that I never would have expected. And it rarely disappoints.
It sounds like you and I share the author’s view that, for all its sparkle, Claude is a thin substitute for the company of interesting people.
What might it look like to lower the barriers to that kind of situation, to extend that extreme luxury to more people—ideally to anybody who decides they’d rather lead interesting lives-of-the-mind themselves?
(Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959090 [3 days ago / 469 / 212] )