{"id":10360,"date":"2026-06-23T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10360"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:42:19","slug":"together-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/06\/23\/together-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Together Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I’m sure tech is<\/em> responsible for driving us apart
\nbut I think it’s unrealistic to say that
\nwe’ll just all go live in a forest.”
\n–Eugenia Kuyda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are the words of the woman who created Replikant, a colony of AI companions that you can pick from, for an ongoing price of course, to fill your need for companionship and intimacy. <\/p>\n

But it’s not the first time I’ve heard the thing about it being ‘unrealistic’ to go back to living in the forest.<\/p>\n

And whenever I hear it, I always have to wonder about what whoever is saying it thinks …<\/p>\n

is Real<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, we would have considered it unthinkable to sacrifice so much of our precious Attention to social media, via those satanic mobile tracking devices. But it actually happened, and less than twenty years after the release of the first iPhone, it’s been utterly normalized.<\/p>\n

There is no reason at all to think that we won’t next sacrifice our Attachments to the machines, in the same way and for the same noble reasons, in the short to medium term future<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I’m sure tech is responsible for driving us apart but I think it’s unrealistic to say that we’ll just all go live in a forest.” –Eugenia Kuyda These are the words of the woman who created Replikant, a colony of AI companions that you can pick from, for an ongoing price of course, to fill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10362,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions\/10362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}