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This is specifically and overtly marketed to autistic kids, not as a mere toy but as a tool to help with emotional development.

https://moxierobot.com/pages/robot-for-autistic-child


So it's fine if someone steals your daughter's favorite teddy bear, because you shouldn't delegate your kid's emotional state to a stuffed toy?


Yes. Not having the market validating this as business in a time where AIs are full of ideological biases is good news. Incredible that parents would trust this much in the blind. Remove the marketing gimmicks and is like asking to accept in advance a close 24/7 new friend of their kid before knowing if that's the behavioral influence they want from that "friend" (interestingly this would bring the alignment issue and, as a side note, makes us meditate on how aligned we are with friends and friends of our kids, etc).


So this is OK? Selling somebody an $800 thing that might stop working is fine and people should just get over it? This "business model" should not exist.




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