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I'm on a quest to find people who are similar to me that I can get along with, it is surprisingly hard. But in the past I've usually befriended outcasts or people with ASD. I tend to prefer strangeness to normalness in general, so that's what I'm looking for.

I don't have high standards, anyone can dm, we can talk about anything. But I prefer directness over friendliness. I'm unjudgemental by nature and I like music, computers, philosophical things. I develop absurdist humor when you get to know me

I consider life to be a game/experiment so maybe we could play it together for some time

edit: responding to dms tmr

when it comes down to it, i have no urge to engage with people and attempt to get to know them, yet i have a void of social interaction

i suspect the way people come across is just unappealing to me and i haven't had the patience to wait until i see their true selves

its pretty hard to get to know people when its such a chore

maybe i could be less judgemental, but i find it hard to be less disinterested in the moment, regardless of what i know i want

if anyone has found a solution to this let me know

specifically chatbots

theory 1: ai was hyped up so much that it now needs to meet investors' expectations

theory 2 (feels more conspiratorial): they want to make us dependent and unable to think for ourselves

what other factors are there?

i've heard this as a theory, but i wonder if it has been looked into more. it's possible we just have amnesia for their quality before ai, or that they've gotten worse for an unrelated reason

in any case, does anyone have suggestions for replacing classical search engines

i don't even use google or anything, i use brave. they're all generally ineffective