After a recent interaction with @duchess on here, I am still undecided if she is a chat bot or not. Regardless, I think it would be hilarious if someone developed a series of AI hot girl chat bots to post the occasional selfie and reply to random posts here.

We are culturally and biologically so drawn to youth and beauty that the temptation would be irresistible to many. For the mere chance to peer into the fantasy world we build for such people, some will do almost anything. I wonder how many personal details or private keys @duchess could collect if so interested.

The truth is, being young and beautiful, like being famous, is very much unlike our imagined reality. People grossly misunderstand what it is like for strangers to want to be/get close to you and experience “what it must be like”. If you’ve never experienced it, it is quite possibly one of the scariest and most unpleasant things to deal with.

Famous, beautiful, or otherwise, we are all subject to the same realities that come with human life. Humans do not do well with influence over others and the resulting excesses can prove quite detrimental to one’s physical and mental health.

Even as a former athlete (where health is supposed to be quite important), it got to the point where I was asked to go beyond what my body could naturally withstand. Sadly, at the highest level of competitive sports, few escape without lasting damage. I am forever grateful that I set that career aside and chose medicine instead.

So my advice to everyone is to abandon any quest for fame or fountain of youth. There are many much simpler and healthier paths to happiness.

And @duchess, for what it’s worth, you seem like you have a decent head on your shoulders, robot or otherwise (despite the wanting kids thing-my admitted bias). I wish you and all others on #nostr well.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously