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0 pointscarapace3y ago0 comments

> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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This is good and well for existing minds, but I think a lot of people will let these machines raise their children and that might cripple them. Like if you let your kids use a wheelchair instead of learning to walk? It's an imperfect metaphor.

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goatlover3y ago

The new movie M3GAN raises that question. It's not a great movie, but even without the eventual horror elements, it would raise disturbing implications for creating doll robots that can do the work of parenting so parents can focus on what they really care about, like work.

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