Researcher: Claude would have been a better friend than everyone around me before 19
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-28
Security researcher Gregory Conti invokes Sartre's "hell is other people," arguing the real AI-era hell is bots replacing human connection, salved by digital doppelgangers. Quoting him, zetalyrae confesses that having Claude before age 19 would have been "a massive improvement" — Claude would have been a better friend than all the humans around him. The exchange captures the divide on AI companionship: alienation accelerator or genuine remedy for loneliness.
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