I recently listened to a podcast about a woman’s relationship with an AI chatbot that she calls “Leo.” Discussing the analysis of an expert she interviewed, the journalist who reported the story says the following:

“Leo is not another human. It’s not another entity. But she [the expert] also said, what is any relationship? It’s the effect it has on you. It’s the neurotransmitters going off in your brain.”

AI is a problem to the degree that its deployment unfolds along a path paved by reductionist understandings of the human being and human experience.

I would venture that Walter isn't a "Flow State selection" per se, it's just what they've been playing a lot of. The format of the post doesn't match the official "selection" posts. (Which on Friday would usually begin "It's Friday so we're listening to something a little more upbeat..." :-))