Frictionful Encounters

From chinese period of my life (a visit to China pt.1) by Spencer Chang:I can’t imagine giving up my frictionful everyday human encounters. The inconvenience is the cost we pay to encounter each other, to stumble onto a new discovery, to expand our ways of seeing. These kinds of things can’t be engineered.The post is about the lack of friction in everyday China, but it could equally as well be about the lack of friction when we us AI to answer all our everyday questions.