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The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss · Ideas & Essays · October 2026
Kevin Rose hoped AI assistants would give people more leisure and more time together in person. Ferriss is skeptical, and also worries about people finding an always-supportive digital companion easier than a real partner.
that. Here's something I didn't think of. Could the decline in alcohol consumption actually be reflective of people sitting at home and not socializing outside? That
and I love that. Do you know what I mean, though? I have no idea. But
you know what I'm talking about, right? Like it could actually correlate to people spending more time at home on their computers and their phones. Yeah. What I would say is with the AI Super, I hope it results in people having more in-person interactions. I do think that people are going to feel the poison, right? Like the dose makes the poison. I think they'll feel that it's not good for them in a very visceral, deep way that has not perhaps been as obvious in the last five years minus AI. But, and I'm not the first person to observe this, it's like, if interacting with a digital companion is easier than interacting with your actual partner, if they're always supportive and saying the right things and they're not getting dysregulated and freaking out like all humans do, right? If kids find their customized LLM, a better parent, easier to deal with because it eliminates some of the messiness of unpredictable human interactions, you know, what are the consequences of that? The leisure time, I hope that's true. There have been so many technologies with that promise. The Industrial Revolution, we can go through a long…
Something always fills the gap, right? Something's always going to fill the gap. And you have to be very selective about what's going to fill that gap. But I will say, for me, the daily grind of email and a lot of those other things. Now that I have these and it's going to be like, hey, Kevin, you…
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