Stephen Dubner

It's like when computers started beating humans in chess and Go, which is very complicated years ago, people were, as they always are, worried with these new technologies.

People will now stop playing chess.

And in fact, that had the opposite effect

because no one wants to watch two machines play each other.

We like humans.

You may like me.

For him?

I guess I could think on it more, but my first response would say, not only is it not unethical, because...

We know that the emotion that's being mistreated is not a human emotion.

And we also know that the people who write that code and make that machine, they understand the way barriers are shiftable and so on.

And additionally, I would say,

It's a really nice use of technology to absorb maybe someone's hostility that doesn't have to be then directed to a real person.

It's like abuse the lawnmower.

Abuse the AI.

Don't abuse people.

Save your patience for humans.

Yeah.

I like the NFL a lot.

And I often think of it, especially at this late, relatively advanced date in our civilization as a proxy for war.

Everything about it is very warlike, but also the pageantry around it now.