kingkawn

Some might say this is a feature not a bug of religious freedom

Maybe you don’t have friends because you’re a racist in your heart of hearts?

Nobody cares about your moralizing. Not the US, not Europe, not Russia, not China, not anyone. You are making these assertions solely for your own satisfaction. I hope it is pleasurable enough to justify your dedication.

There is not a singular ideal for all to pursue

for most problems and perspectives it’s an irrelevant distinction

Given that it’s always been true if true, then the implications are that things are as they’ve always been.

Hilarious you think that Internet forums are policeable in any meaningful way beyond avoiding outright lewdness and rage

Nobody is fooling themselves about this, we have stuff to do with the device beyond focusing on it

I am talking about the value to the user, who is the one 'hallucinating,' not the inanimate object, as that was the concern of note in the parent comment.

The technology is there to assist you. It can provide valuable feedback to you about what aspects of your studying were particularly productive or less so based on your test results. There is real meaning to developing this kind of interaction with an object, no different than how children use dolls to develop prosocial behaviors.

Your pedantry and rigid lack of any insight is not representative of science just your own intellectual flaws

we already knew the last part, they’ve just defined it a little better

there is no chance, given the strategic implications for war and economics alone, that governments and other private entities are going to stop pursuing this at a breakneck pace

No previous era of cruelty has threatened the existence of life itself. Corporate greed is the most hideous, horrific, inhumane era of human culture that has ever been.

Since an overwhelming number of people who use it are Hackers who come here to seek News it seems relevant