I don't think it's inherently wrong to have deep emotional connections to inanimate objects, but it's pretty clear here that this one is at the cost of his wife's needs.
For sure. If he had a huge emotional attachment to a stuffed animal for his childhood I would have no problem at all with it. The creepy thing is that this is in some way hurting someone close to him, and he has noticed this. It's fine to be fascinated with the stuff that AI can do reasonably well. But don't do this! Don't form an emotional attachment to an AI to the point where your actual wife starts to have questions!
Someone having a too strong attachment to an inanimate object that is piece of their childhood is fine, someone having too strong attachment to a new inanimate object, for example some fucking car, is not okay
I don't think it's inherently wrong to have deep emotional connections to inanimate objects, but it's pretty clear here that this one is at the cost of his wife's needs.
For sure. If he had a huge emotional attachment to a stuffed animal for his childhood I would have no problem at all with it. The creepy thing is that this is in some way hurting someone close to him, and he has noticed this. It's fine to be fascinated with the stuff that AI can do reasonably well. But don't do this! Don't form an emotional attachment to an AI to the point where your actual wife starts to have questions!
Someone having a too strong attachment to an inanimate object that is piece of their childhood is fine, someone having too strong attachment to a new inanimate object, for example some fucking car, is not okay
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