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Would you let it speak for you?
Suppose a machine could read the people you love better than you can — their moods, what they're not saying, when to push and when to stay quiet. Would you let it script your hardest conversations with them?
Better outcomes in a conversation may compete with the value of finding your own words.
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A little context
There's a conversation you've been putting off: telling your mother you won't be home for the holidays, or your partner the thing you've circled for a month. You've rehearsed it a dozen times and every version comes out wrong. Now imagine a helper that knows them better than you do: when to stop talking, what they'll hear in each word, what they aren't saying.
Nearby questions
- Can you choose who you love?Falling in love sounds like something that happens to you. Staying in love sounds like a decision. Arranged marriages bet on the second.
- Is anything unforgivable?Some people forgive a murderer in court. Others never forgive a friend who insists they did nothing wrong.
- Can you love someone you don't respect?Care, admiration and respect usually travel together. Sometimes you are left with only the first.
- Should you put your own people first?You can save someone you love or five strangers, but not both. Almost everyone would save their own; impartial arithmetic says five is more than one.
- If someone you love committed a serious crime, would you turn them in?The Duke of She boasted that in his country a son would testify against a father who stole a sheep. Confucius answered that where he came from, fathers cover for sons and sons for fathers, and that this is what uprightness looks like.
