Cynthia Hu Blog

Player Two

So we talked about how people can get attached with the machine sometimes. Maybe to some super intelligence machine that totally look and human and even have human thoughts. I think it pretty creepy for a human to be emotionally attached to some machine or robot. I understand how people sometimes emotionally rely on their machine because it may remind them of something. Not because they are in love with their machine. I recently watched a video on YouTube about a real comment a person posted on social media. His father passed away when he was 6 and they used to play this game a lot. His father is not beside him anymore but he is always the ghost racer who keeps the record in the game. He never wants to get faster because he doesn’t want to erase the record. So he can still feel his father around him, somehow.

Remember how we usually talk about can people get emotionally attached with machine, like what happened in the movie Her. I don’t believe that can happen in real like and honestly I think it’s pathetic that people are not able to communicate with other human and they find they are only comfortable talking to their machine. In the case in this video, I understand how this can happen. Because the other racer used to be his father and they have those memories in this game. So he maybe can find some comfort playing this game. But I still think it’s weird that people get emotionally attached with a random machine.