Nathan shares how his tour guide at the Forbidden City told him that Doubao is used for things people cannot talk about with anyone else — like relationship doubts — because it never judges, and that this companionship use is accepted across generations, even among parents. ✦ AI generated
Nathan · The Cognitive Revolution · 2026-07-27 · original ↗
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two women actually said that their moms had made some comment to them like look at what Dough Bao said to me. Why can't you be so nice and sweet to me like Dao is? So there's definitely like a companionship element to it. And this tour guide woman at the Forbidden City said when Chinese society there's some things you can't really talk about with anybody, but you can talk about those things with DBA and nobody will judge you. Do won't judge you. And I was like, what what kind of things are we talking about? And she said, maybe you have a boyfriend, for example, and you decide you don't like that boyfriend anymore. want to change your boyfriend or whatever, that's the kind of thing that you would talk to do bow about. I said, 'What would you have done in the past with no DBA?' And she said, 'Nah, just keep it to yourself.' I have no idea how representative that is, but it was interesting. And it was interesting that she found a lot of value in DBA and that it seems like that's a pretty common thing. And I also heard this nobody will judge you both in the sense that DBA itself will not judge you, but also that people will not judge you for using Dvao. the idea that you're you have some sort of emotional connection or you get emotional support or you have a real relationship real being whatever you want to mean by real with dobao that seemed to be tolerated accepted understood as kind of an increasingly normal part of society even among people of various age groups
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124:56actually said that their moms had made some comment to them like look at what Dough Bao said to me. Why can't you be so nice and sweet to me like Dao is? So there's definitely like a companionship element to it. And this tour guide woman at the Forbidden City said when Chinese society there's some things you can't really talk about with anybody, but you can talk about those things with DBA and
125:23nobody will judge you. Do won't judge you. And I was like, what what kind of things are we talking about? And she said, maybe you have a boyfriend, for example, and you decide you don't like that boyfriend anymore. want to change your boyfriend or whatever, that's the kind of thing that you would talk to do bow about. I said, "What would you have done in the past with no DBA?" And she
125:41said, "Nah, just keep it to yourself." I have no idea how representative that is, but it was interesting. And it was interesting that she found a lot of value in DBA and that it seems like that's a pretty common thing. And I also heard this nobody will judge you both in the sense that DBA itself will not judge you, but also that people will not judge you for using Dvao. the idea that you're
126:04you have some sort of emotional connection or you get emotional support or you have a real relationship real being whatever you want to mean by real with dobao that seemed to be tolerated accepted understood as kind of an increasingly normal part of society even among people of various age groups this was not just young people it was like young people's parents that are doing this so I thought that was like really
126:29quite interesting the nevertheless There's also some reason to believe that the enthusiasm for AI that we often talk about in the west where we're like oh are we in the west are like pessimistic about AI China's more optimistic. I think that's true but it might be overstated a bit. Several people said in an economic sense people are not that confident in the economy. They are worried about losing their jobs. They're