> He wasn't asking knowledgable friends for advice, he was asking questions to strangers about linux on IRC.

A stranger is a friend you haven't made yet. Asking strangers is one good way to make friends.

It's true, but it's far from the only way to break the ice.

Really on top of the particularly narrow viewpoint the OP has on life and human relations, I find the core notion itself absurd - "In the future because of X, Y and Z, why will people bother to socialise?"

Because ... people like socialising.

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ShinyLeftPad 6 days ago | parent [-]

I think they like socializing decreasingly less

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-ho...

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Nursie 6 days ago | parent [-]

I think there are some valid points to be made about how people's socialising patterns are changing in the light of modern interactions with tech, but also about using US social habits as a proxy for everyone else's. I've rarely entertained people in my home even during my most sociable times, pubs, clubs and restaurants much more frequently figure in my calendar.

All that and the author of this article still needs to get out and touch grass.

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ShinyLeftPad 5 days ago | parent [-]

I think these stats are true for most western developed countries

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-loneliness-epidemic-among...

Telling people to touch grass doesn't magically invert trends.

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Nursie 5 days ago | parent [-]

These are somewhat orthoganal - young people are lonelier != everyone else has a fixed supply of friends and can never make more.

Nor does it change the fact that the author, who clearly does want to socialise, would benefit from doing something outside of their tech bubble and widening their horizons beyond "things that could conceivably further my career".

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ShinyLeftPad 5 days ago | parent [-]

> the fact that the author, who clearly does want to socialise, would benefit from doing something outside of their tech bubble

I am not in SV and i don't have a single irl tech friend. OK, maybe just one.

Most of my friends would agree with me and with article author. One of them goes further and doesn't even have a smartphone.

IME techies very rarely have these concerns.

So I'm not sure who is in a tech bubble between me and all those people in this thread saying how the logic is illegitimate because the author doesn't go out (which I guess is a "fact" because they all know him personally lol)

	▲	Nursie 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I am not in SV and i don't have a single irl tech friend. Then you are not at all like the author, who is specifically decrying the loss of tech-related avenues to meet people, and calls them out as his only ways of meeting people. You've done some sort of mental back-flip by this point in the thread, and are ignoring what the author wrote about themselves and how they meet people.

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gherkinnn 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Then ask strangers about identifying birds instead of Linux.

	▲	Hamuko 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Isn't that exactly the kind of thing that would be offloaded to an AI? If you can just take a picture, record the sound, or vaguely describe a bird and it instantly gives you an answer.
	▲	ShinyLeftPad 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The stranger will tell you just ask a model.