Stephen Dubner

Right?

Yeah, exactly.

It's like there's the old argument.

I thought I made it up.

It turns out I didn't make it up at all.

But I argued years ago in some episode that when the AIs come for all of our jobs, then if we can turn into essentially pets the way dogs have been turned into pets because dogs used to be work animals.

All these dogs were bred for different kinds of really hard work.

We didn't need that work anymore.

And we kept a whole bunch of dogs around.

Now we love our dogs more and we love our people.

Yeah.

Exactly.

There was a Seinfeld line from years ago.

He's like, if a Martian came down, sees a species, and the guy walking around picking up the poop from the dog, who's in charge here?

The first time that you were recommended a book on Amazon based on a previous book, you thought, wait, what's that?

Or on Netflix, watch this, you like that.

And then the second time you thought, oh, that's kind of either weird, creepy, wonderful.

And then the third time you're like, that's what it is.

And that's the way all technologies are.

This is something tangent, but when you get used to things quickly, what the psychologists call habituation, that can be a bad thing too.