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comment by OftenBen
OftenBen  ·  3966 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why do we feel so much for machines?

You're still anthropomorphising in a way though. As long as your code is 'your child' it has attributes of humanity, yes?





briandmyers  ·  3966 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, exactly - he didn't try to stop us from anthropomorphising, he encouraged us to look at it in a different way. The idea was to encourage constructive criticism, and to get us used to letting peers see (and judge) our "babies".