'LLMs to send birthday messages' is the latest fascinating example of 'a thing that is useful for governments and organisations being weirdly packaged as useful for households'.
It’s a really fundamental mistake about how human relationships work.
A therapist will say: yes we need to talk about payment and when we’re meeting and treat those conversations as seriously as when you talk about your parents because you are present in all those matters.
Human relationships take place IN the small things. Not in the peak experiences. A marriage doesn’t consist of the wedding, the most athletic sex and the annual holiday. It exists in “how we decide what movie we’re watching” and “what you say to me when I left the kitchen in a mess”.
There’s a you-ness that actually emerges MORE in the moments when you don’t feel that “this is the super important part”. You slip your own leash, you reveal yourself, that is where other people can get to know you.
