Derek Thompson

Your face is being held depressingly in your hands. Internally, I want you to know that I am also holding my face depressingly in my hands. I think this is not only pathetic in a small way, but also sad in a very profound way. Anti-human. I don't know. Anti-human, anti-social. I actually care about humans.

Let me just try to explain why I think this is happening and why I think it's going to grow in a way that I hope people don't intuitively think of as me endorsing this prediction as being good for the human race. Got it. Think about your relationship. Phenomenologically, your relationship with people in your life who don't live around you, right? You text with them, right? Yeah.

Let me just try to explain why I think this is happening and why I think it's going to grow in a way that I hope people don't intuitively think of as me endorsing this prediction as being good for the human race. Got it. Think about your relationship. Phenomenologically, your relationship with people in your life who don't live around you, right? You text with them, right? Yeah.

Let me just try to explain why I think this is happening and why I think it's going to grow in a way that I hope people don't intuitively think of as me endorsing this prediction as being good for the human race. Got it. Think about your relationship. Phenomenologically, your relationship with people in your life who don't live around you, right? You text with them, right? Yeah.

In a way, those relationships exist in blue bubbles on your phone.

In a way, those relationships exist in blue bubbles on your phone.

In a way, those relationships exist in blue bubbles on your phone.

And you think about the fact that young people today who are being handed their first phone when they're whatever, 9, 10 years old, think of friendship as being something that in many cases, or human relationship, as being something that in many cases is almost purely a relationship between you looking at a pane of glass and seeing dot, dot, dot, and then blue bubbles appearing.

And you think about the fact that young people today who are being handed their first phone when they're whatever, 9, 10 years old, think of friendship as being something that in many cases, or human relationship, as being something that in many cases is almost purely a relationship between you looking at a pane of glass and seeing dot, dot, dot, and then blue bubbles appearing.

And you think about the fact that young people today who are being handed their first phone when they're whatever, 9, 10 years old, think of friendship as being something that in many cases, or human relationship, as being something that in many cases is almost purely a relationship between you looking at a pane of glass and seeing dot, dot, dot, and then blue bubbles appearing.

Is it really so different to just text an AI all day long? If that AI responds immediately, always validates your feelings, always has consideration for your deepest and darkest fears, is trained precisely to tell you how smart and good and right you are about all of your worries and all the people you hate, there's a way in which, what I've said before, before we build, like,

Is it really so different to just text an AI all day long? If that AI responds immediately, always validates your feelings, always has consideration for your deepest and darkest fears, is trained precisely to tell you how smart and good and right you are about all of your worries and all the people you hate, there's a way in which, what I've said before, before we build, like,

Is it really so different to just text an AI all day long? If that AI responds immediately, always validates your feelings, always has consideration for your deepest and darkest fears, is trained precisely to tell you how smart and good and right you are about all of your worries and all the people you hate, there's a way in which, what I've said before, before we build, like,

A superintelligence of IQ will have accidentally built a superintelligence of EQ. That in many ways, a lot of things that people want from relationships are actually kind of computationally shallow, right? They want validation. They want responsiveness. They want to feel better. They want to feel maybe like they've made something else feel something. But that can be engineered as well.

A superintelligence of IQ will have accidentally built a superintelligence of EQ. That in many ways, a lot of things that people want from relationships are actually kind of computationally shallow, right? They want validation. They want responsiveness. They want to feel better. They want to feel maybe like they've made something else feel something. But that can be engineered as well.

A superintelligence of IQ will have accidentally built a superintelligence of EQ. That in many ways, a lot of things that people want from relationships are actually kind of computationally shallow, right? They want validation. They want responsiveness. They want to feel better. They want to feel maybe like they've made something else feel something. But that can be engineered as well.

The AI could simply say, that's a wonderful point. I feel much better now.

The AI could simply say, that's a wonderful point. I feel much better now.

The AI could simply say, that's a wonderful point. I feel much better now.

You believe that you believe that. And I believe that because we're geriatric millennials, right? No, no, in all seriousness, we agree about that point. Well, no, it's true, though. But think about, but I am not certain.