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Link to originalThe “moment to mark,” she says, is not that we’ve started treating machines as humans, but that we expect and treat other humans as if they’re programs. I think a lot about the pathologizing and labeling we’ve done to each other over the years, the hashtagging and categorizing of everything we do, the therapy speak and VC speak that are impossible to unhear once you start listening, even in casual conversations. Sometimes we treat each other as if we’re simple, predictable robots we can program, instead of the reality of our messy, complex, unpredictable, flawed selves.