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There's a difference between a real person dressing up as a character from fiction, and a soulless robot coming to visit you.
by bjt2n3904 5y ago
There's a difference between a real person dressing up as a character from fiction, and a soulless robot coming to visit you.
- filoeleven 5y agoThe soulless robot is operated by a person, making it more like a puppet. The contrast in the article between satisfaction with robot visits and “tablet visits” indicates a clear preference for the robot over the tablet. It doesn’t give any detail about what a “tablet visit” looks like though. The “visited by preference list” probably looks like this: Costumed Human > Robot > Tablet > Nothing I do think an interesting question is whether “random stranger not-in-character” beats “random stranger driving shiny robot.”