Doctor Mike
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If it complements your in real life relationships, it's good.
And if it substitutes for your in real life relationships, it's going to make you less well off.
That's what it is.
You'll be more, you'll be, you'll have more of a, an oxytocin deficit.
You'll have more depression.
You'll have more anxiety.
You'll have more loneliness.
If it's substituting for your in real life, personal relationships that we are evolved as a creature to have in real life.
Love.
That's what we're made for.
That's the fuel.
That's what it comes in.
We don't get us.
No, not virtual friends.
There's no hack for it that we know.
And look, we've been looking for the hack.
I mean, it's all those studies.
I know, I know.
See, the thing is, it'll pass the Turing test in the left hemisphere of your brain, but not on the right hemisphere, which is why you know.
And it's like, at first, you're like, this is awesome, this relationship with this person.