You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

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