[daymanstep]

If by practicing kindness towards rocks, you become more inclined to act kindly towards other humans, then surely that is a net win.

[cwmoore]

And if instead, by anthropomorphizing inanimate objects we eliminate the affect of actual empathy, we obviate the need for being human at all.

[irthomasthomas]

Is there a cost? For LLMs this article claims the cost is ~5%