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#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Social Robots Technology Can Help With Loneliness

Social robots technology can help alleviate our loneliness, for sure. But what does this mean for society? If we choose to hang out with our alexi rather than alexis, if we spend time with l c rather than elliann, we we're not going to invest in our human relationships. The danger is that we'll get very used to having relationships with essentially servants who do what we want and laugh at our jokes. So it doesn't, it doesn't mean that we need to have a relationship with people to feel less lonely. Go deeper on that.

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