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Holly Sawchuk's avatar

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.

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Ingrid Wagner Walsh's avatar

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!

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Holly Sawchuk's avatar

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?

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Ingrid Wagner Walsh's avatar

It’s one of her top choices for sure.

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Caroline Beuley's avatar

Agree with everything you said!

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Julie W Engelman's avatar

Yes! Everything you said, better than I ever could. (Better than ChatGPT ever could too, by the way.)

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