Re: The Turing test tells us nothing really.

I think that one of the problems humans have with robots, is that they
can't identify with them, cannot engage emotionally with a machine. It
just seems wrong to them. It seems stupid to sit there and talk to a
non thinking or non human robot. People don't like talking to their PCs
or they wouild use voice recognition more. It is not a popular item in
the home.

But that is resolved, by having a human humunculous, at the other end
that the person can get attached to. Your humunculous service will
flourish and you will become wealthy beyond your wildest immaginings,
if your operators are congenial, and sweet, and the end users fall in
love with them as people. And I don't specifically mean romantic love,
but also platonic love.

Picture a wealthy granny, who has a little dog, it is her baby.

Well people would form relationships with their operators, and would
not feel silly talking to their robot that they are pushing around in
the grocery store, because everyone would know, that it has a human
somewhere, who is speaking back to them.

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