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  1. Mar 2025
    1. 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.

    2. “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

    3. “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.