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I’m glad to see someone flip to this view. There will be holdouts forever. “He’s trying to kill you!” “Well, actually, the Terminator is only a predictive mod

• haswell 4y ago
  To be clear I think that the anti-anthropomorphization conversation is still an important one for many other reasons. It’s just not a very useful factor when examining risk/harm, or at least not a very good reason to claim there is none. It comes quickly back to the forefront when exploring the sociological side and how people’s beliefs about what the robot is will be just as impactful, e.g. someone who believes the machine is reasonable is more likely to grant it more power by imagining that it reasons the way humans do. It’s gonna be an interesting decade.