I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person
Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption
I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep friendships, and am not a core member of any particular community
I’m not very cultured, I’m finding, and don’t have abiding interests in art or literature or history or much that isn’t directly related to my work
I have a work-centric life, in other words. AI pulls back the curtain on just how impoverished such an existence is, by disabusing me of its necessity
Given the freedom I’ve always said I wanted, I’m at a loss as to what to do with it, except plow myself even harder into work, thus exacerbating the lesson
There’s nothing more confronting to humans than freedom