I've spent more than that on a cat who contracted cancer.
What scares me more than the technology is the thought of people forming the same kinds of emotional bonds with machines as we already do with living pets....and now I'm not so sure I shouldn't already be scared by the idea of forming emotional bonds with non-humans even if they *are* living beings.
But the cool part is at least it made me think about stuff that hadn't occurred to me before.
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I've spent more than that on a cat who contracted cancer.
...and now I'm not so sure I shouldn't already be scared by the idea of forming emotional bonds with non-humans even if they *are* living beings.
What scares me more than the technology is the thought of people forming the same kinds of emotional bonds with machines as we already do with living pets.
But the cool part is at least it made me think about stuff that hadn't occurred to me before.