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- Thinking companion: ways to use AI to break you out of biases https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/thinking-companion-companion-for 2 comments
- The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug https://twitter.com/_taylorswope/status/1205252714680045568 185 comments
- Thousands of Britons dating chatbots amid surge in loneliness | Think tank warns over psychological risks as nearly 1m turn to digital companions https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/07/thousands-of-britons-dating-chatbots-amid-surge-loneliness/ 42 comments technology
- 70% of doctors think companion robots may alleviate the mental health problems caused by loneliness, and health insurance should cover their cost. https://interestingengineering.com/science/ai-powered-companion-robots-could-end-loneliness-in-older-adults 78 comments futurology
- Companion robots to mitigate loneliness among older adults: "Most participants (68.7%) did not think an Artificial Companion robot would make them feel less lonely and felt somewhat-to-very uncomfortable (69.3%) with the idea of being allowed to believe that an artificial companion is human." https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1106633/full 33 comments science
- In the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice. In the next decade, they will do assembly-line work and maybe even become companions. And in the decades after that, they will do almost everything, including making new scientific discoveries https://moores.samaltman.com/ 65 comments artificial
- A super-bright supernova exploded in 2006, releasing 100 times more energy than a run-of-the-mill supernova. Now, researcher think the powerful blast was caused by a tiny white dwarf spiraling into the core of its giant companion star. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2020/01/a-new-explanation-for-a-bright-supernova-found-by-astronomers 9 comments science
- A super-bright supernova exploded in 2006, releasing 100 times more energy than a run-of-the-mill supernova. Now, researcher think the powerful blast was caused by a tiny white dwarf spiraling into the core of its giant companion star. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2020/01/a-new-explanation-for-a-bright-supernova-found-by-astronomers 12 comments space
- Does anything think that URI movie got BIASED reviews from the movie critics of India (like Film Companion and others)? https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/agvreq/does_anything_think_that_uri_movie_got_biased/ 9 comments india
- Enterchained is a gladiatorial hack and slash where you are chained to your companion and have to take down waves of different enemies; we like to think of it as synchronised swimming meets the Colosseum http://www.windowsphone.com/en-ca/store/app/enterchained/f006dde6-fcaf-4072-b77d-1a8423a95079 3 comments windowsphone
- Young Men's Self Esteem Hurt By Female Companion's Success: Author Says "So thinking of themselves as unsuccessful might trigger men's fear that their partner will ultimately leave them." http://www.universityherald.com/articles/4415/20130902/young-mens-self-esteem-hurt-female-companions-success.htm 815 comments science
- You'd think an impotent, drug-crippled man who, with several of his male companions, hauled an entire refill of suspiciously acquired Viagra to the Dominican Republic, notorious for its sex tourism, would avoid calling out anyone for their vacations. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_080610/content/01125110.guest.html 11 comments politics