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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not that the robot needs to hear it, but that you need to be someone who says it.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be serious, yes, absolutely. How many children hear their parents just bark orders at their virtual assistants without a please or thank you, and then do so themselves? I consciously say please and thank you because I want the children around me to learn they should say please and thank you.

And, let's be honest, how many adults get used to just barking orders without a please and thank you and then interact with people that way, too?

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

We need to be the change we want to see in the world. And the thing is: we are, whether we wanted to be or not.