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    13 days ago

    There’s an uncanny valley effect for how i treat objects. A stuffed animal I’ll treat very well, but I’ll yell at Siri that it’s a piece of shit.

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        12 days ago

        This comment made me think that it comes down to how useful something is.

        The roomba is very helpful, even though it takes a bit of extra maintenance. Siri/Google are absolutely worthless assistants that can’t play a single song correctly 80% of the time. Even when they work it’s only gotten less convenient.

        Common interactions go:

        Me: hey Google, what is something

        Google: I don’t know. According to this website answers the question

        Or worse, google: I’ve sent the results to your device!