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What bothers me more than the lack of privacy or encryption is the idea that we are giving our voice to machines. We are moving to a society where we let technology speak to our friends and loved ones as if they were us. Something essentially human is being lost in that process.

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On the bright side maybe we'll get to the point where the bullshit social media conversations are all done by bots. Then we can devalue and ignore them and only have to actually participate in actual conversations.

My bot can just continuously post variations on "Here is a belief, validate it!", "Accept this high status social posturing as true!", "My worldview has been questioned. Outrage! Let us form a mob and bully the outsider into silence!", "I have performed a meaningless I-am-a-good-person ritual, please reassure me that although my employment is based on doing harm to people I am still a good person". And other bots can respond with messages of vague support/retweets/likes/whatever.

Since we seem determined to allow others to control and influence our private conversations let's at least get something out of it.

Exactly! This is how we should we look at it. You don't have to type the obligatory "How Cute" kinda messages and rather spend time on other important things:)

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That's a complicated topic. I could expand on my thoughts on it, but I'm pretty busy today. Have your people call my people and we'll set something up.

Personally, I have a great number of everyday interactions that I need to have, but do not have any semblance of humanity connected with them. I also highly doubt that people in days of yore actually received a benefit from connecting over the voiceline with their pizza delivery guy.

I'm not worried that my intimate conversations will be replaced by bots. I am interested in automating my "yep" and "haha" responses to things I couldn't care two shakes about.

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