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Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Connection?

More and more people have come to utilize their AI chatbot as some sort of a friend — or even a therapist! Which raises perhaps the greatest billion-dollar question of our times: should artificial intelligence, through the market’s invisible hand, be ever allowed to point-blank replace human connection?

Law of Platonic Supply and Romantic Demand

I’ve been thinking about why we value romantic bonds more than friendships. My flagship article Everyone wants to fall in love, but few are willing to fall in friendship clearly lays out some possible reasons we do so. But I’ve come to realise that there could be another factor that explains why we struggle to maintain an equilibrium of value between our romantic and platonic loves. It is a psychological mechanism behind trade, one ingrained so deeply into our psychology. Yo

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