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Kieran Healy

I'm reminded of a remark by the noted social theorist of gift exchange Fred Rogers: “And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child, the gift is really self”. The gift is really self, you Google AI weirdos.

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Timothy

@kjhealy “Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,
and here, I said, is the lanyard AI made at camp”

Jeremy Kahn

@kjhealy When our kids were small and the gift was ‘edible’ I was concerned that the quantity of self might be more than was desirable …

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