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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Even so, it's hard (or perhaps impossible) to avoid the reflex to impute intention to things that seem to have intenders. Think of your autonomic, unavoidable emotional response to the fictional characters you encounter in literature. Feeling sorrow or joy for imaginary people is *weird*.
2026-09-21T11:48:09.445Z