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by xg15 3485 days ago
On the plus side, when we reach a point where a child can be raised with no interaction with live adults...

Depends what you understand as "can be raised". Seems to me that there is the potential for such persons to become mentally unstable or tuned to a highly different set of ethics than we are. If a person is only raised by robots, how do they learn dealing with actual humans?

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I would expect their educational material to cover ethics and how to behave toward other humans. I'd expect their entertainment to include a good dose of movies and TV shows and written fiction that involves multiple humans interacting so they can pick up a lot from that.

I'd also expect that children raised exclusively by robots would be raised in the company of other similarly raised children that they would play and socialize with, giving them some experience and chance to practice what they learn formally in school and informally from movies/tv/books.

> I would expect their educational material to cover ethics and how to behave toward other humans.

Kids need love, not that. Giving them instruction without love doesn't work at all.

The reverse works fine.

> in the company of other similarly raised children that they would play and socialize with, giving them some experience and chance to practice what they learn formally in school and informally from movies/tv/books.

Yikes. You would raise a generation of severely damaged psychopaths if you did that.