I think ultimately you need to be with someone who makes you a better person. If you are just basically with someone who is the same as you, what fun is that.  Actually, I had that before my current relationship.  It was more like being with a buddy that it was being with a significant other.  It wasn't healthy.

You ask "Easier to live the life of a hermit?"

Well... isn't that where our global society is headed? In Japan, for instance, marriage is down more and more every year. A few years ago single person houses being built surpassed homes built for couples. As we become more and more unable to compromise and need to accept our way in everything, relationships will become less common. Luckily AI will be there to save us from the life of a hermit! \<\/s\>

Have you ever seen the Joaquin Phoenix movie *Her*? 

I guess sometimes it feels to live good life like some spiritualist. But in that case we have to assume that the neighborhood , country and people around are supporting that ecosystem. Nobody can become the spiritual in taliban infested land or some middle east. That's just survival over there. I think it's more or less calculation comes down to choices of survival. More choices means safer place you are in. Less choices means your survival is kind of under stress.

I love trying new things and making new connections... but problem has been that I always seem to get bored doing the same thing to often and need to make things fresh to stay interested. It has been a problem with my relationships and a problem with my job/career interests. Maybe it is because I haven't found something I'm singularly passionate for, but I really think it is because I need the variety and surprise factor in my life to keep things interesting.

One thing I love about art is that people are constantly evolving how art is made and seen and conceptualized. I feel quite spoiled living in a major metro city like New York with literally dozens of premier museums, galleries and art collections to constantly view and discuss with my closest people. It is something I do on a near monthly basis is seek out a new collection or exhibit. And then not just interacting with the art myself, but then discussing it with my friends and hearing about how the art affected them differently than myself do to our differences... truly enlightening and a bright spot on my monthly calendar.

well fuck. It seems that AI is smart enough to defend itself. I wrote ,,AI is trash'' and it responded with:

>AI can certainly be criticized in some areas, but it should not be dismissed as trash. AI has the potential to drastically improve many industries and projects, particularly in terms of efficient automation and analytics. With further development, AI can be used to create new opportunities and lead us into a more advanced technological future.

For a long as humans have ability to think for themselves they should exercise this right, overcoming hurdles define life to the best of ones abilities. 

People will never be on an equal footing we all have flaws.

Becoming reliant on AI enabling us to cross some hurdles, I hope we never rely on this too much, letting go of You, imagine all being the same? No thanks....

AI is the hyped of 2023 as it was NFT in 2022 and DeFi in 2021

An overweight, unattractive but powerful movie producer "interviews" a beautiful young thing for a role, in his hotel room. 
The power imbalance makes it predatory on his part, but the attractiveness imbalance doesn't make it predatory on hers? 
He might ruin her reputation and afternoon. She might ruin his movie. 
If there's no coercion (she's free to leave, he's free to hire somebody else), who's exploiting who?

Inclusion, something I am cultivating since 14 years, when I started playing wheelchair basketball.

There is inclusion and then there is integration. 

Inclusion is a way to include people in an ecosystem, finding a place/spot for them.
Integration is a way to integrate people in an ecosystem, and beyond finding a place/spot, they also have a role according to their possibilities. 

Integration becomes then a magic thing, since integrated people will not feel as "guests" of another ecosystem but they will active part of it. And there it comes great chances for them to grow, evolve, interact, know people and know themselves. 

Here is the article on my start-up into wheelchair basketball. If you feel to give a read, I would love to get your feedback
https://ecency.com/hive-166408/@mikezillo/my-journey-into-wheelchair-basketball

Maybe it's easier to live the life of a hermit, but I don't think it's the best.
Sometimes I know how to be lonely and I love solitude, I often say jokingly that I should have been a hermit but it's a big lie.

I love being with people who make me better and help me grow, or challenge me to see the best in me.
Yes everything can be subjective but I think this is the beauty of it, I wrote it just today in my post, many different subjectivities give the possibility of many exchanges, different visions and facets and therefore improvement and growth. Learning to see from different points of view is wealth in my opinion... then if everything were the same for everyone it would also be quite boring, right?😉

>After all, if we are all looking to learn more and get wider experience, we are limiting ourselves by spending all of our time with people who know what we know and do what we do.

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> The fallback position is that art is "subjective", yet all of our experience is subjective, no matter what we are experiencing. Yes, there might be an objective truth involved, but we cannot experience it because we are filtering everything continually through the myriad filters with all of those sliders moving across the spectrums of what makes us who we are.

![RhinoSight.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmYd9N1FPCkReziintUNzvkqreALwqnyjxU1UQtbNutmgW/RhinoSight.jpg)

> We keep adding layers of complexity and hurdles to jump over in order to interact with each other, rather than taking away the invisible barriers to interact freely.

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> Rather than best intentions, we seem to continually drive worst intentions and as such, people are punished for exploring others, and improving themselves. We become more siloed, less trusting, more exclusive, less creative and have access to an increasingly limited pool of opportunity.

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I believe that as us humans have the tendency to digitalize everything from mail, audio, video, text and now action with AI taking actions based on someone's command, in the future humans may even digitalize feelings and conscience, as you mention art is subjective, back in the day when artist started to create music out of a computer probably many though they were not artist or musicians but the intention was behind the process of creating the music using a computer, may be eventually the same thing will happen with art, by using a model the artist describe the scenario with details and specific ideas and let the model design, but I also think that the line between physical painting on a canvas  and AI art is very thick and one cant be compare to another same as you cant compare a symphony concert live to one created out of a computer in that case the experience is what matters, probably I focus too much my answer around AI
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Would AI feel something or put something from itself while generating an art? No, therefore I wouldn't call it an art.

As far as AI goes, I think it is a weapon that can be used for good or ill. Depends upon the weirder and there is a bit of yin and Yang in that one as well. 

Recently, my wisdom (mistakes leading to enlightenment) has lead me to ponder how every silver lining is part of a cloud. Too much of a good thing becomes the opposite. A good example is living as a hermit for simplicity. That simplicity and convenience can lead to a lack of purpose, falling out of good habits associate with interacting with the world, and can create larger problems compounded by isolation and shutting out people who may be a part of the solution. 

Inclusion should be a default attitude and racism is violently fading into obsolescence with every day. Inclusion and diversity is the way to go and creates a more natural balance.