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Language, Loneliness, and AI

Let's Appreciate

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The Loss of Autonomy in Social Media

There's something called being chronically online where people almost see themselves as like the main character in some big game. Malcolm Harris wrote an article titled, Why Are Kids So Sad? Talking about how it is in social apps that are creating the mental health crisis that are used. The loss of autonomy ties into social media, we're exposed to endless school and our brains focus on the bad even when they are so much good. And this gets an artificial intelligence, of course. We treat the world around us as something to extract from rather than something we are part of. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves. When we think about advances like AI, it probably will be like

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