[uremog]

I, for one, thought it was amazing how little of the uncanny valley I felt.

There are certainly things to consider like how I wouldn't want to be robo-called by scam bots that I can't tell are bots, and neither do others. A lot of businesses have an out already built for them though. Restaurants in particular have services like Open Table and Nowait that relieve the pressure of users wanting to use a realistic robo-call.

As an "Average Joe", my biggest concern is how this will push phone communications even (edit: more) toward where Facebook privacy settings are now - registered friends only - and how inconvenient that will be. I already let any numbers I don't have registered go to voicemail, and I don't like having to do that.

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> As an "Average Joe", my biggest concern is how this will push phone communications even toward where Facebook privacy settings are now - registered friends only

Yeah I mean, that's essentially where we are now... I don't give out my phone number to anyone except my friends and a couple of companies I trust not to abuse it. I reject unknown numbers. Many people are like me.

Phonecalls aren't convenient at all. Expensive, atrocious voice quality, hard-to-memorize easy-to-typo numbers that sometimes have to change and are bount to the country (and sometimes to the provider), no way to identity callers unless they're already on your contact list, ... Should I go on?

Just use email if you want to contact me at random. I use Discord for voice calls, almost exclusively.