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I'm not saying it's rational either way. But getting angry at things is, at least as far as I can tell, normal for most people, without any subconscious idea th

• zephen 8d ago
  > But getting angry at things is, at least as far as I can tell, normal for most people. I can well believe that I am an outlier here. Maybe not everybody else believes that: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zephen#49748843 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zephen#49748843 > without any subconscious idea those things are people. Right, but there is a subset of anthropomorphism that relates to sentient beings, which is what I was trying to get at. Being angry at something is one thing; wanting to immediately destroy it in anger is possibly another. I will admit I don't know the exact feelings involved, because I generally don't have them. The closest I come is the anger I feel at the designers of IVR systems that are too stupid to answer your questions and too obstinate to connect you to a human. I admit to yelling at those, but honestly part of that is that I have read that some of them are designed to sense frustration in users and connect you faster to an agent in some cases. But I have no idea how true that is, or whether it's just like pressing the completely impotent "close door" button on an elevator.
  • andrewflnr 7d ago
    > Being angry at something is one thing; wanting to immediately destroy it in anger is possibly another. This is a real distinction, yes. I just don't see what it has to do with anthropomorphism. Like maybe you're saying the second one is more often directed at people-like entities? I don't feel that at all.