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The frontier was moving, as all frontiers do.
The latest wave of AI has come to prominence in the period following the 2008 financial crash, and its ability to optimize rationing at scale readily fits in with austerity policies based on scarcity.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
Esther Perel address it on a podcast ([interview starts at about the 50:00 mark](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YOPdZzZrl8OujI4B3P3TL?si=fdaa493a95bd4ca5)). I’m going to quote her heavily, because I hope the words will stay with you as they did me.
> “Modern loneliness masks itself as hyper connectivity. And so people have easily 1000 virtual friends, but no one they can ask to feed their cat. That loneliness, which is really a depletion of the social capital, is extremely powerful. […]
The Friendship Problem
Rosie Spinks
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