With the Industrial Revolution, they exploited our natural resources and poisoned our environments.

With the rise of advertising, they contaminated our mental and social spaces to insist and persuade that we were alone and not enough.

The next frontier is to fragment and eradicate the relational commons, our prized human relationships, the basis of all society.

You could see a smokestack, and be offended by a billboard - we can’t trace an imperceptible synthetic shift to eradicate human worth

Hypothesis: Any excess time you spend with AI/LLMs that could have otherwise been devoted to humans makes you a worse human being

Hinging on “excess,” this intersects several topics:
- zero-sum displacement
- opportunity cost threshold
- diminishing returns
- psychological dependency
- skill(s) atrophy
- values alignment
- balance disruption

For corporations to lead such a dialogue is hazardous at best. They have no care whatsoever for natural beauty, creativity, autonomy or human flourishing.