Sublime

All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working f

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THIS...by Kazuo Ishiguro: https://t.co/tlDDKxOVaY

my place and watch the cat do back flips?” hardly ever failed.) That was my first impression of Style’s real life persona. Two weeks later I sat in a restaurant in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf waiting for Style to arrive, mentally tallying a list of crazy things that could be wrong with him. I ignored the waiter who was trying to upgrade my be

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I watched him for a few minutes. He was buff now, wearing a torn T-shirt and a loosely knotted tie. He was telling the students that he hadn’t lost his virginity—or even held a girl’s hand—until he was twenty-six-and-a-half. It was a gimmick now, part of his routine for guys. He had become a guru too. And, along the way, he’d lost the innocence he

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