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>>rbanff+(OP)
Alexa should be treated as a different kind of stranger. I think it's a huge mistake for children to talk to computers. It's inherently dishonest for a single voice to represent something so manipulative and fluid as if it's a person.

Amusing example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M

>>jakeog+pc4
"Explain protocol," Nell said. This was how she always talked to the Primer.

"At the place we're going, you need to watch your manners. Don't say 'explain this' or 'explain that.'"

"Would it impose on your time unduly to provide me with a concise explanation of the term protocol?" Nell said.

Again Rita made that nervous laugh and looked at Nell with an expression that looked like poorly concealed alarm.

- "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson

What's going on here is that Nell has, without even really setting out to, pierced the fiction that her second utterance is really different from the first. Humans react badly if you treat them obviously as automatons, but disguise it even slightly and somehow that's fine.

She code switches from a modality that's convenient for addressing her instance of Runcible (a powerful AI with the outward physical appearance of a large old book) to one for addressing teachers and people in authority and she does it seamlessly, so that the effect is unnerving.

>>tialar+tH4
This makes me very interested in reading that book. Thank you for posting.