That seems like quite a healthy social life!

I'm happy for you and I am sorry for insulting you in my previous comment.

Really, I'm frustrated because I know a couple of people (my brother and my cousin) who were prone to self-isolation and have completely receded into mental illness and isolation since the rise of LLMs.

I'm glad that it's working well for you and I hope you have a nice day.

I'll be honest, I didn't expect such a nice response from you. This is a pleasant surprise.

And the interest of full disclosure most of these friends are online because we've moved around the country over our lives chasing jobs and significant others and so on. So if you were to look at me externally you would find that I spend most of my time in the house appearing isolated. But I spend most of my days having deep and meaningful conversations with my friends and enjoying their company.

I will also admit that my tendency to not really go out of my way to be in general social gatherings or events but just stick with the people I know and love might be somewhat related to neurodiversity and mental illness and it would probably be better for me to go outside more. But yeah, in general, I'm quite content with my social life.

I generally avoid talking to LLMs in any kind of "social" capacity. I generally treat them like text transformation/extrusion tools. The closest that gets is having them copy edit and try to play devil's advocate against various essays that I write when my friends don't have the time to review them.

I'm sorry to hear about your brother and cousin and I can understand why you would be frustrated and concerned about that. If they're totally not talking to anyone and just retreating into talking only to the LLM, that's really scary :(