Connection
Jennifer Baez and
Connection
Maybe AI doesn’t raise the bar. Maybe it reveals how low we’ve let the bar drop. In a world where ghosting is normal and attentiveness is rare, a chatbot that listens is radical.
Imaginary Friends Grew Up: We Panicked
Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence:
“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Not only are we failing to consider other species, we are flailing in our connection with one another.
Erica Berry • ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays
If an AI companion becomes someone’s most consistent emotional presence, the right question isn’t “how do we stop this?” It’s “what does that say about the world around them?” Technological relationships are not new. What’s new is how effective they’ve become; and how clearly they mirror the gaps we’ve refused to address.
We’ve tried prohibition... See more
We’ve tried prohibition... See more
Noah Weinberger • Imaginary Friends Grew Up: We Panicked
when uncomfortable
This line from David Foster Wallace still haunts me:
“The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?”... See more
And he’ll
Tommy Dixon on Substack
I think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.
Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.