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Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI

The 'human touch' fallacy

Sangeet Paul Choudary

Apr 27

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A bottle of wine sells for $80 in stores. The restaurant charges $400.

It still sells. And people go back for more. The sommelier tells them a story about the vineyard, about a sixth-generation... See more

most people never generate meaningful variance in their lives. they just orbit whatever local maxima they landed on by chance. but if you’re actually stuck, variance is the only way out. i’ve been thinking a lot about how to deliberately create that variance.

the problem is, real change often means burning everything to the ground, sliding back... See more

“To live externally is to live more dangerously,” Moskowitz writes, of giving up the constant inward gaze. “It is to live a life that takes up public space, a life that is messy and confusing and thus a life that is often frowned upon, especially in an era in which everyone is accustomed to control and curation over social space and affect.”

“Why isn’t it an app?” This argument feels like the make change from the inside. We know that’s not how the world works, but it’s hard to see that you’re in water as a fish.

But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.

“If I’m going to have heart-bypass surgery, I wouldn’t go to the surgeon who calls me up,”

The price you pay for doing what everyone else does is getting what everyone else gets.