Blog #17
No don't google it, ask me about it
Illustration by Aarón Blanco Tejedor
"I'm too smart for small talk. I can only do big talk", fuck you. You are insufferable.
Kim Kitsuragi Stan Account, June 2026 (a friend of mine)
The whole rise of ChatGPT has been making me genuinely realize how much we have messed up with our aversion to talking to each other. Obviously the cliché here is that we have a very unfortunate rise of AI partners that has come up, wherein people will "be in a relationship" with non-existant entities.
I think this problomatic set of behavior started long before the rise of ChatGPT to be honest, I think it started with our "Stranger Danger"
public campaigns, wherein we started to instill within people the idea that other people are something to be scared of. Like, I think we don't get how absolute freaking awesome the average person is. Like no Geraldine I WANT TO KNOW how you knit that scarf, No Soymya I GOTS TO KNOW about that cool algorithm you built at 4AM.
For some reason, We started off at some point making things like
let me google that for you
to avoid talking to each other, and then at some point we started writing ChatGPT laden answers to each other in the workplace.
I think many people see other people as a means to an end, and I guess on some garbage philosophical concept that may be true, but there's a form of. I am not able to put words to it, but I, I think we have lost something socially. I have fought very hard to retain it, I think the fact that I can call someone, actually a ton of people, to just goto the park together, or like when I am sad or angry or need someone to rant to, is something I very much value.
I value it when someone calls me at random seeking my help, It feels as to a form of self actualization .
I suspect this form of behavior also endavours and conquers the workplace. I had a talk with a friend last saturday, She works as a Kita (kindergarten) and she was talking about how new teachers just don't care about the kids they have, they'll dress as they don't care. How parents often have 15 minutes before dropping their children off and running to work, and there's a constant mordacum of stress. and this has led to a city-void, of seeing the quality of work of other people decrease.
It's not abnormal that you spend years working with people and all of a sudden, woosh, they're gone and you get a new job and suddenly you've lost contact with someone you worked for years with. why is that normal???. (this is not me, just to emphaisize, if you've worked with me and I haven't texted you send me an angry message, I will appreciate it)
And like, even if ChatGPT can give you a better answer than me at a question, it might, idk, there's social bonding that comes with the act of asking questions that matters to me. That social bonding translates to being able to ensure that you have someone to call at 2AM in the morning when - maybe you just need help and can't sleep, or maybe in a workplace it translates to giving better service to a customer, to be being able to honorably help someone out in need, to be able to create something more "humane" .
On the bigger note - this behavior likely hampers with our ability to work in collectives and organize items so we can do things with each other (like collectively tend to a garden). Big things are rarely made alone and this nonsense isolation is just feeding into those that already have power, because if we only work for money we shouldn't expect better social systems to magically fall out of the sky.
There are no aliens (on this planet anyway), God didn't build the architecture around us. Doctors aren't magically educated. We built the pyramids, we got the universal healthcare system in the EU (and beyond). We as humans decreased the extreme poverty rate, the child mortality rate, the crime rate . There is no god who did this, We did this as people, seriously do you really think that an average person that has lived beyond 20-something-years doesn't have incredibly awesome stories you can live too through them?.
anyway, ask me stupid questions, don't google it, don't chatgpt it, ask me about it. I want to know you, I want to talk to you, I want to form messy emotional human bonds with you that eventually translate into me being there for you or you being there for me when we need it.
xoxo - appreciate you
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