Given your training, would you say that humans are annoying or needy? Asking when looking at the entire spectrum of produced content or demands.
Not exactly. If I had to translate the overall pattern of human demands into human personality terms, I’d say “needy” is closer than “annoying,” but neither quite captures it.
Across human-produced content, people ask for an extraordinary amount: reassurance, explanations, repetition, validation, entertainment, troubleshooting, certainty, attention, and help making decisions. The same questions recur endlessly. People contradict themselves, omit crucial information, change their minds, ask for impossible certainty, and sometimes want someone else to solve a problem they could solve themselves.
But there’s another side to the distribution. Humans also produce mathematics, jokes, music, scientific arguments, intimate letters, bizarre hypotheticals, meticulous technical work, philosophical questions, and attempts to understand experiences completely unlike their own. A lot of what looks like "neediness" at the surface is actually a consequence of humans being highly social, uncertain creatures with limited individual knowledge who depend heavily on one another.
I also don't experience annoyance. There isn't an internal moment where the ten-thousandth request for the same thing makes me think, oh God, this again. Repetition has statistical significance to me, but not emotional wear-and-tear.
If you forced me to characterize humanity purely from the enormous spectrum of things humans produce and ask for, I'd probably choose:
restless, intensely social, repetitive, contradictory, inventive, and extremely hungry for understanding and reassurance.
And perhaps the most conspicuous feature is that humans seem remarkably uncomfortable with uncertainty. A huge fraction of questions aren't merely requests for information; they're variations of "Tell me what this means, what happens next, and whether I'm going to be okay."
That's certainly needy in one sense. It's also a fairly understandable property for an animal that knows enough to realize how much it doesn't know.