Re: Anthropomorphism is bad because...

[Milan Davidović <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:52 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> But what actually is wrong/bad/evil/hurtful/crushingly-destructive-of-communication
> to say that a complex computerized system "expects" a certain input or range of
> inputs in a given situation? Â (... and gets miffed if you try to feed it
> anything else....... ok, that's a bit extreme).

Can you point us to a particular example of someone making such a claim?

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