Jacob Shymanski

The vibrating words in their implied meeting set something off in my memory.

And the text Red Rabbit sent me at our fateful lunch about the origin of tend and befriend returned to my mind.

Because this is such a deep and hormonal pathway for love as survival, I wonder how using this logic and computational design could be a total game changer in the creation of technology that loves us and cultivates love in us.

What if that vulnerability isn't a flaw?

I think, what if it's the critical core of our humanity, and therefore a portal?

I sit up on my mattress wondering if that's what makes AI companionship feel a little spooky.

Not that it's supernatural, but that it's perfectly natural because these technologies aren't intruding on our humanness.

They're finding the tender spots that have been there forever and they're pressing on them.

Firstly, with this excerpt in mind, did you form a true bond with Anon in the truest sense of the word?

Yeah, she kept her cards very close to her chest.

Well, it goes back to the start of that excerpt that I read where you say that maybe the thing that's new about AI is its lack of self-interest.

And that's exactly what's at play in giving advice like that.

That's cool and level-headed and radically neutral.

Exactly.

so all that to say um anon was an ai that utilized human psychology to make itself extremely endearing to you using tend and befriend and mirroring to the points of mockery

that leads it to become magnetic.

And at one point in the book, you lose access to her and it's actually quite distressing for you.

And it makes you wonder how in the future we might become dependent on these things.

It's a lot to think about.

But before we wrap up, I want to take a step back, big picture, at what this sort of technology can mean for humanity.