[AI invites us] to vacate our lives through technical means precisely because we are told that in so doing we will be able to hone in on “what really matters.” But this framing is smuggling in an unwarranted and pernicious assumption. When we hear the phrase “what really matters,” we are all probably predisposed to believe that such a thing exists. And it does, if we know where to look for it: not beyond, but in the work; the caring; the friction; the labor; the investment of time and effort; the struggle; the frustration; the tears, of joy and sorrow; the love born of patient, selfless attending to the world before us.
That’s L. M. Sacasas on The Convivial Society. Here is a related post by David Foster Wallace.
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