befriend the robots

Yes, you can have too much of a good thing. Overreliance on robots as a total replacement for human relationships is a real concern. That said, I don't believe that RNotte's behavioral observations around how the robot is your (only) friend helps that cohort or others as it well could. Frankly, if you're truly suffering from AI psychosis alongside whatever other preexisting or emergent comorbidities, I'm convinced that you need much higher-quality assistance than what either my post or the one I was inspired by can provide. As for people not that far out, maybe there's some value you can find here. People building and relying on robots can take on many different flavors beyond the lonely addict archetype. Lumping them under one hyper-individualistic umbrella might not be the best idea. Countless levels of interfacing robots sit in between healthier limits, such as those who built them in the first place and students who only tried them once. How many people on this platform and others…