The whole AI/anti-AI schtick doesn't have a sense of sanctimony to it that I think would be considered gauche in real life. That makes me wonder. I'm here on th

The whole AI/anti-AI schtick doesn't have a sense of sanctimony to it that I think would be considered gauche in real life. That makes me wonder. I'm here on this site a lot but my life seems very different from most commenters. So I'm starting to believe that the difference clusters a little. For instance, I frequently see the "we never talk to our neighbours anymore" idea expressed, but in real life I live in a high-rise in San Francisco where the neighbours will help people wash laundry, or borrow yogurt or sugar, or help with a broken knob[0]. Then there's this business about "AI removing connections to people". My wife's an artist (and now a Creative Director in a corp) and she used an early image model years ago to iterate on the design that we then had embroidered onto my sherwani[1] in India through a close friend's connection and I made a suno.ai tune to walk out for my wedding to. My wife and I use this new tech to model things and print it out on our 3D printer[2] so we can reuse my daughter's infant-stage play pen as gates now that she's older. My wife once tried to make us persimmon bread from a recipe that 3.5 gave us. We have a claw-like bot that is hooked up to our calendar, contacts, history, planes, airbnbs, hotels and so on and helps us with stuff. By any measure, we are pretty social people and we are quite happy. And the thing to note is that, as far as I can see, we are not particularly remarkable. This seems to be the standard way most people I know use LLMs: to do things that they wouldn't cross the effort/reward threshold otherwise. And there's no grand disaster happening. 0: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-10-09/Community https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-10-09/Community 1: https://x.com/arjie/status/1855328068883353665?s=20 https://x.com/arjie/status/1855328068883353665?s=20 2: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-01-11/Modeling_With_Claude https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-01-11/Modeling_Wit...