'There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy'

[Nearly Sane]

Lots of valid points made, but I think this underestimates our ability to find intimacy in things that we might know have no 'real' emotions, see The Velveteen Rabbit, and that AI will feel real in ways I doubt we can currently imagine. In the end this reads like a personal statement which I am sure will apply for many.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/there-will-never-be-an-age-of-artificial-intimacy.html

[Rhiannon]

I have had dreams in which I have fallen in love with someone; when I have woken up the feelings are still there, still real and it takes me quite a while to shake them off. Not sure why this makes me think of that but it does, we can be deluded into love that has nothing do with true relationship.