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> if it sounds real, I don’t really have a choice but to treat it like it’s real

How do you operate wrt works of fiction?



Maybe “sounds” was too general a word. What I mean is “if something is talking to me and it sounds like it has consciousness, I can’t responsibly treat it like it doesn’t.”




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