Let’s be honest. We love to assign shame. If we don’t like someone’s behavior? They should be ashamed. Someone’s morals? They should be ashamed. Heck, at the State of the Union address last week, U.S.

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...