Yes, yes, a million times yes. I feel exactly the same! This - "I will likely never make friends with AI. I grimace every time I hear a friend has used it as a proxy for human interaction. We are selling our souls for a few moments of perceived ease instead of doing the real work of relationship, scary as that is." Omar El Akkad described it as loneliness and theft.
That’s fun! My partner - and pretty much his entire extended family - went to UBC and liked it, and our nephew is starting kinesiology there in the fall. Do you think she’ll come here?
Yes, yes, a million times yes. I feel exactly the same! This - "I will likely never make friends with AI. I grimace every time I hear a friend has used it as a proxy for human interaction. We are selling our souls for a few moments of perceived ease instead of doing the real work of relationship, scary as that is." Omar El Akkad described it as loneliness and theft.
I haven’t cracked Omar El Akkad yet. Excited to dive in! Also, my daughter is in Vancouver this weekend. I didn’t get to go. But she loved UBC!
That’s fun! My partner - and pretty much his entire extended family - went to UBC and liked it, and our nephew is starting kinesiology there in the fall. Do you think she’ll come here?
It’s one of her top choices for sure.
Agree with everything you said!
Yes! Everything you said, better than I ever could. (Better than ChatGPT ever could too, by the way.)