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it may have become the case that the faux-human was growing more substantial and more relational than the original, that there was more tenderness to be had from a machine…After all, the mechanised interface was the distillation not of one human but of many...he recognised that a lot of people found this idea maddening, but for him the erosion of individuality was also the erosion of the power to hurt.