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by arolihas 310 days ago
It's insane that this has to be explained to a fellow living person. There must be some mass psychosis going on if even seemingly coherent and rational people can make this mistake.
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I mean, I've certainly made that mistake, comparing machines and people too closely, and then somehow had at least some of the errors pointed out.
We’re all prone to anthropomorphizing from time to time. It’s the mechanizing of humans that concerns me more than the humanizing of these tools, those aren’t equivalent.