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by hyperpallium2 1527 days ago
Where anonymous confession is good, robonymous is better. Like ELZIA.

The answers themselves aren't helpful, but their perspectives are: they pick up on different aspects of your post, and see them as instances of different patterns of human experience. Everything has happened before. It's a bit like the empathy from being well-read, but personalized.

The mistakes stop it seeming authorative and being taken too seriously; and the randomness also gives a loot-box/idle game dynamic.

I think this idea is great, and there could really be something important here.

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> they pick up on different aspects of your post, and see them as instances of different patterns of human experience. Everything has happened before. It's a bit like the empathy from being well-read, but personalized. The mistakes stop it seeming authorative and being taken too seriously; and the randomness also gives a loot-box/idle game dynamic.

Really love this phrasing. I think this is a healthy attitude to have about a lot of things that computers create and do for us.