[Gomotono]

For the sake of it: Just do everything manually.

Stop using the computer to talk to strangers, take your feed and go to your neighbour and talk to them.

Stop buying online. Spend your free time in the crowded city and ask someone in the electronic store who doesn't know shit.

Just go to the place everyone else is going at the same time because its a lot more fun than trying to pre analyse it upfront.

How about stop buying pasta for once? Do you know how easy it is to make pasta at home? You only need to grow your wheat, store it, mill it, ...

Its a tool, its an interesting tool. Keep your brain engaged and keep an eye on it were it leads. Stop having knee jerk reactions like the old people...

And yes not everyone can take a sabatical to write their dream book. Surprise \o/ but perhaps i can get it out of my system and i might enjoy seeing a good enough version.

[ilikecakeandpie]

You're being intentionally intellectually dishonest with your take here and this an absurd whataboutism. The author isn't telling people to stop using AI for work, coding tasks, etc he's saying to stop using it as a replacement for human interaction.

Anecdotally, I've seen the effects that people delegating their executive functions to AI have had and the damage is quick and harrowing

[cortesoft]

If that is the argument, it makes even less sense. Who is using AI to replace human interaction?

People use AI to replace other computer solutions for things. This is arguing against a straw man.

[miunau]

I suggest reading James Muldoon's "Love Machines" for a thorough answer to your question.

[Gomotono]

No i'm not. You could just ask me and have an option discussion instead of downvoting and thinking i'm dishonest.

People today don't ask other people what 'time saving tipps' they have, you google and checkout some influencer etc.

I also have never asked some friends about their camping trip ideas. I use tripadvisor, or similiar things. My mom does it the same way and the rest of my family (all non it people).

He uses some hyperbole for the marriage proposal text but lets be honest, if a person is using that instead of trying it themselves, they wouldn't have tried it themselves anyway.

I also take pictures, you know how it felt already 10 years ago when people compared your pictures to evyerone else pictures? This train has departed. Everyone did red color key pictures, had their B/W phase etc.

How much time do we all actually sit in front of screens? Why are we discussiong this on hn? I don't know you, you don't know me. You don't care who i'm as a person.

My comment is genuin and its true.