I did not expect to open this and find one of my college classmates, Bradley Metrock. But also a very good piece: "Bradley took the stage. 'We always close the conference with something that will get you thinking,' he said. With that, he yielded the podium to the final speaker, whose talk was titled — I read it twice — 'Lasting Impact: How the Holocaust Inspired a New Approach to Conversational AI.'"
An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston
Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversation: on a Hinge date, doomed but persisting as a form of protocol. At a publishing party, surrounded by people who look and talk like me, all of us a little drunk but maintaining our nervous, manic professionalism.
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