Eva Illouz
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
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Foreword
By Edo Segal
The feeling I could not explain to my wife was not exhaustion.
I have been exhausted before. I know what exhaustion feels like — the flat affect, the shortened temper, the body's honest accounting of what the mind has spent. This was different. I was energized. I was building faster than I had built in years. The work with Claude was producing real things, things I was proud of, things that solved problems I cared about. And I was — this is the part that scared me — happier than I had been in a long time.
So why was something wrong?
I could feel it the way you feel a draft in a house before you find the open window. Something was leaking. Some dimension of