Cute robots shift the Overton window for humanoids
deliprao · x · 2026-08-28
The author suggests that the flooding of the market with cute, benign robots will shift the Overton window, making society more accepting of not-so-benign humanoids. This shift is expected to happen slowly at first, then all at once.
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