I'm looking connect with people and see the world from different points of view and integrate the results of that into my model of reality; I'm not looking to be entertained, really, although sometimes that happens too.

Insofar as the thing I'm looking for can be achieved by AI, I welcome AI interactions.  (I spend a substantial time every day just talking to LLMs for this purpose.)  But most slop isn't really that, or it's a low-fidelity version of it.

AskSN

Why don't you like slop?

k00b

Some discussion on this previously at https://stacker.news/items/1389424/r/elvismercury.  Here's [my answer](https://stacker.news/items/1389424/r/elvismercury?commentId=1390141) pasted:

> I'm looking connect with people and see the world from different points of view and integrate the results of that into my model of reality; I'm not looking to be entertained, really, although sometimes that happens too.

> Insofar as the thing I'm looking for can be achieved by AI, I welcome AI interactions.  (I spend a substantial time every day just talking to LLMs for this purpose.)  But most slop isn't really that, or it's a low-fidelity version of it.