3 links have been added on this idea.
  1. I saw a guy from Boston Dynamics beating up on a robot – it made me feel sad, despite knowing it wasn’t even “feeling” it – wasn’t even a robot but a cgi trick. Playing with our emotions already and they don’t know it – bless the bots, they will tell us who we really are.

  2. Interesting. It would be wrong to let people think that their robots are persons.

    “There are several fundamental claims of this paper:

    1 – Having servants is good and useful, provided no one is dehumanised.
    2 – A robot can be a servant without being a person.
    3 – It is right and natural for people to own robots.
    4 – It would be wrong to let people think that their robots are persons.”