When AGI happens will you be among those saying that it's okay to torture them because it's only simulating pain and not "actually" feeling the pain? If the hand inputs and the sound outputs are the same, is it not really the same?
I think they were rather saying that separating the functions of the device like input device, sound generation and output can have superior results because it becomes possible to combine different (and maybe better suited) parts. This makes a lot of sense.
On the other hand I do not agree with them that a combined device is as useless or bad as they make it sound.
