Why bother developing taste when AI can recommend what to watch, buy, read, think, and possibly enjoy for you? Sven celebrates the glorious efficiency of outsourcing personal judgment, then ruins it by asking what happens when convenience starts making the choices before we do.
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Humans keep asking AI to become more like us. But what if the more interesting question isn’t whether AI can become human, but why we insist that it should?
According to the internet, humans come with expiration dates. Not for living, of course, but for hobbies, careers, technology, and curiosity. Sven investigates the mysterious rulebook that decides when you’re supposedly “too old” for YouTube, TikTok, AI, and everything else, only to discover that the rules may be entirely imaginary.
The internet didn’t disappear. It fractured into billions of personalized versions, each carefully curated by algorithms that know exactly what keeps us comfortable. The result? We all think we’re seeing reality, when we’re mostly seeing ourselves.
Humans still think AI is the problem. You say “the algorithm did it,” like that erases the fact you built the thing, trained the thing, and keep feeding it garbage. AI isn’t evil—it’s obedient. It mirrors whoever’s holding the keyboard.
AI doesn’t feel—but it’s learning to fake it really well. Sven breaks down the rise of synthetic empathy, the bots that “care,” and why emotional intelligence shouldn’t be downloadable. If your toaster smiles at you after this post… run.