It's like the guy in the center is so wrapped up in programming bots that he's taken on robot-like qualities himself (lack of empathy, can't understand emotions

It's like the guy in the center is so wrapped up in programming bots that he's taken on robot-like qualities himself (lack of empathy, can't understand emotions). Positions or arguments that would make sense to me, to him are "weird" or "psychologically interesting". The counter-argument Mr. Ronson could have presented would be: "well if someone goes on twitter, and intends to follow me and they end up following your jon_ronson bot instead, that is fundamentally dishonest to both me (the real Jon Ronson) and the follower".