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The original sin of artificial intimacy is the use of the first person, because that's the hook. It makes you feel that there's a there there when there's no there there, and there's no one who cares about you.

We are in this spot not just because the chatbots are so attractive, but because we have abandoned each other.

Social media came after their attention. This is coming after their attachment.

Therapy is not words being told, people saying words at you that sound like the right words. Therapy is a relationship with someone who cares about you.

There's no intimacy without vulnerability, and there's no relationship without friction, because the whole point of a relationship is that you're not the same as the other person, and you don't have to be.

Learning to deal with friction is a requirement for being a citizen.

The first rule of social media was: make people angry and silo them with their own kind. There couldn't be a worse training for relationships, or for citizenship, or for democracy.

We are so seduced by that pretend empathy that sometimes we start to think that it's empathy enough.

This is a product. It's being made by companies. It's being sold to me. And it's trying to get me to do certain things, most of all to sit with it and talk to it so they can make more money.

If I could capture in my work the difference between talking to a chatbot and what it felt like to open the door and have this woman come in with Mexican food, I would have won my argument.