He's clearly contrasting meeting people due to asking them questions or discussing a hobby/task versus using LLMs:

>As a teenager I tried to install Linux, ran into all kinds of problems, and went on the IRC chatrooms to get help. And in the process I made friends. Today, I would just ask Claude.

It could have been "repair my car" and "car forums" or "learn to knit" and "Reddit"

And further, he's saying that the dependence will diminish that life beyond computers:

>The people in the AI utopia will have no skills, no education, no accomplishments. We’ll be lucky if they are even literate. They will not be worth talking to, and you won’t want to hang out with them.

There is no life outside of the internet. The nexus of canonical, shared reality now exists online.

You can try to make friends outside of the internet, but all of those friends will use the internet, or their friends-of-friends will use the internet. Eventually you realize that the social group is centered on the internet, and by trying to avoid the internet you separate yourself from reality more than you connect with others IRL more by avoiding it.

Not to mention people have their social needs met by the internet that would otherwise force them to go out and form IRL friendships. So people who would otherwise be friends with you aren't available in the real world. So it's this social involution.

Before the internet was this sort of escape from reality for nerds, but now it IS reality. It is super-real. You are a dork if you don't use it.

I read the article and I don't have the same impression