[pavel_lishin]

I'm skimming this, and I also agree - machines should not pretend to be human, and we should not pretend they are.

But I do think that, like, being mean to a machine and calling it slurs and telling it it's a piece of shit is bad not because the machine feels bad, but because despite our efforts, we do anthromorphize things, and it will normalize the idea that we can just call "someone" a piece of shit.

I used to call my mom's dog "the horrible hound", and eventually swithced to calling him "the honorable hound", and I explicitly told my kid: I know the dog doesn't know I'm insulting it, but I do, and that's not the kind of person I want to be.