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The Gentle Romance — LessWrong

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On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose, And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. — Walt Whitman He wears the augmented reality glasses for several months without enabling their built-in AI assistant. He likes the glasses because they feel cozier and more secluded than using a monitor. The thought of an AI watching through them and judging him all the time, the way people do, makes him shudder. Aside from work, he mostly uses the glasses for games. His favorite is a space colonization simulator, which he plays during his commute and occasionally at the office. As a teenager he’d fantasized about shooting himself off to another planet, or even another galaxy, to get away from the monotony of normal life. Now, as an adult, he still hasn’t escaped it, but at least he can distract himself. It’s frustrating, though. Every app on the gl

x The Gentle Romance — LessWrong Stories Fiction AI World Optimization Curated 2025 Top Fifty: 14 % 243 The Gentle Romance by Richard_Ngo 19th Jan 2025 Linkpost for www.asimov.press 18 min read 46 243 Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me! On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose, And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose. — Walt Whitman He wears the augmented reality glasses for several months witho

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