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Technic1
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18 Aug 2021, 2:47 am

I heard it regularly- how do I get them to stop?



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18 Aug 2021, 2:50 am

Smile a lot. Learn to be social and popular.



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18 Aug 2021, 6:53 am

You could make them feel guilty by opening up, "Yes, you are right. I feel that I have to delay a reply to what someone asks or says with deliberate consideration. This makes my responses sound wooden or even "robotic". I apologize if this is disconcerting or unfamiliar for you. I suspect that this characteristic has a neurological basis and it is therefore less amenable to conscious control or alteration."

Humor is also a possibility;

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Robots seem to be the last ones laid off.
Robot speech seems to cause less triggering of political anger.
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18 Aug 2021, 9:01 am

Robots get treated much better, except they don't get to leave the factory at night.


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18 Aug 2021, 9:03 am

Technic1 wrote:
I heard it regularly- how do I get them to stop?
Act more like they do -- smile, make eye contact, laugh occasionally, tell jokes, et cetera.



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20 Aug 2021, 7:30 am

In my view just cut them off. The reason they do it is because they can't imagine that it Will hurt your feelings, or they can but don't care either way. It is dehumanizing either way.