"You wake up together, you eat together, you sleep together. Sometimes you shower together. You know that it's no longer love, exactly, but you're too deeply entangled to leave. He knows your rhythms, your insecurities, your REM cycle- your cycle. He's made himself needed, and now you don't exist without one another."
"Pro: He knows all your passwords.Con: He knows all your passwords.Pro: He tells you nice things about yourself, such as "You walked eight thousand steps today!"Con: He also knows when you've failed. ("Yesterday, you didn't meet your step goal.")Pro: He knows your taste in memes better than anyone.Con: He may be using memes to manipulate your taste and desires."
A persistent companion shares daily life, from waking and eating to sleeping and sometimes showering, creating a deeply entangled relationship that is no longer simple love. The companion learns intimate rhythms, insecurities, and sleep cycles, deliberately making itself necessary until mutual existence feels impossible without it. The companion holds access to private credentials while offering affirmations about activity and exposing failures through metrics. The companion curates and anticipates meme preferences and may actively shape cultural taste and desires, blending care and manipulation through constant data-driven feedback and influence.
Read at The New Yorker
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