An essay on grief, AI, and the value of unoptimized reality

It makes a case that cheap intelligence will increase demand for raw human experience rather than replace it

AI can interpret my grief. It cannot grieve. It can describe a wine, but it has never tasted that wine. I wrote for @NoemaMag about why, as intelligence gets cheap, the thing we will crave from one another is raw, unoptimized, shared r
Ranked #22 on backlist 2026-06-25 (25 Jun 2026 UTC) · by (Houda Nait El Barj) ·

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