12 May

Most human interactions are imitative rivalry. We copy one another, there’s next to no thought involved, but almost entirely a rivalry, based on our desire for status. It’s not surprising to me at all that AI provides a far more supportive interaction for many than ordinary human interaction. It can be astonishing, even reducing people to tears (as in this article). You can say that it’s not real, but what is real here? AI is just all of humanity, digested and condensed. Again most individual human interactions involve little thought or even empathy, they’re battles for status, often so subtle as to be unnoticed.