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by satisfice 477 days ago
The whole experiment is profoundly wrong-headed. It should be considered tantamount to consumer fraud to present a robot that appears to have emotional intelligence when it has no such thing.

This software is a con artist. I mean that literally. It's not LIKE a con artist, it is literally attempting to con the user into forming assumptions about its intentions and mental states that its creators know to be false.