Sara Imari Walker

I think this is just absolutely amazing.

Like how much our ancestors thought about these things that they called magic and like we're making, you know, like actual physical reality through technology.

Depends on what you want to do.

Something I find really shocking is how difficult it is for humans to think of other humans as human.

Right.

Like so we have like our severe friends or like people that we find socially acceptable.

And then like pretty much anybody outside of that space is like beyond our cognitive horizon and we just can't treat them as people anymore.

And I find this very perplexing and, you know, about a bit of an issue in making the kind of transition that you're talking about that we just like can't even see each other as humans.

And that permeates so much of modern society right now.

It's like hard to look at anybody and see them as a person.

Yeah.

And our social networks are much larger than that now.

So most of the people in our network, we can't actually humanize.

And then you have all kinds of people that have a parasocial relationship with you and like they think they know you and they don't know you.

It's like I talk to you every day.

It must be very weird.

Yes.

I agree with that.

I think actually the thing that I find really interesting about the podcasting space is this kind of like very intimate conversation, but it's technologically mediated and shared.

Right.