.@micsolana nailed it. You can feel the soullessness of a lot of ai products. Not evil, just empty. (although i think xAI companions are evil, and plenty of applications of AI (if not AI applications) are incredible). Luckily, there are a lot of uncommonly clear discussions of material abundance and of every sci-fi moonshot on our path to Star Trekkian abundance, but i increasingly feel like those are going to succeed in spite of, not because of, soulless tech's attempts to neuter us.

The Goonpocalypse: