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  1. Mar 2025
    1. All were elegantlyslender, despite the rich food and drink they were putting away.

      artificial beauty and manipulated bodies

    2. many millions of people suffer from increasingloneliness and isolation. Our serving-man will be a boon to them: he will always answer, and themost vapid conversation cannot bore him.

      they present an artificial being as a solution to loneliness.

    3. “Not only does he have intelligence, he has a controlled amount of intelligence. We believe peoplewould be afraid of a being with a human brain.

      fear of fully autonomous artificial intelligence

    4. “Clocks tell the time. Clocks are real. Mummy has clocks so she must like them. She has a clockon her wrist next to her dial.”

      Teddy simplifies time, an abstract concept, into clocks, a physical object.

    5. “Monica prefers to stay at home thinking beautiful thoughts,”

      Women are reduced to beauty and domesticity