Yes! Shakespeare too! "TDLR: They both die". So much better ! /s

Reading the article and the writing in the New Yorker for many people IS the point.

Not everyone emulates a machine and just wants data.

Once you grow up, you'll stop just trying to score points. And the only one pretending anything here is those that feel their "just the facts" attitude to life is somehow superior.

Like, riddle me this: if you're such a rational genius that you're never motivated by this girly weakness called emotions, what's the point of telling us about it?