Very poetic but you either misunderstand me or think I intend for my advice to apply all the time, in all situations.
I’m 100% an AI skeptic but also I won’t invest time and emotion replying to communications where it’s clear the other side a priori also didn’t invest at all. Let machines deal with machines and let me deal with humans.
And believe you me, I reserve this for contexts where I’m not jeopardizing my real interaction with someone I care about.
> Do you really not understand that connecting with other flawed, unpolished people is its own reward?
Oh I understand that perfectly - the above sentence shows that it’s you who didn’t understand what I said in the first place.
Understood, then we disagree only about the appropriate response. I opt instead to ignore all messages written by AI. I can even feel myself developing instant blindness to its 'house' style in the same way I stopped being able to see ads in the earlier days of the internet, prior to ublock.
That said, I do have the advantage of effectively absolute financial security, so I'm privileged enough to be choosy about who I interact with. I do understand that sometimes there's no real choice but to wade through slop in the pursuit of a paycheck.
Exactly! I reply to emails for a living, so sadly I can’t afford to ignore the ai-written ones…