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> Is anthropomorphizing a real problem?

Of course it is. Anthropomorphizing is in our nature, but it doesn’t mean we have to entertain it and extend it to everything. A poet can anthropomorphize clouds beautifully and I’d enjoy his poem, but I want my pilot to not see clouds as rabbits when they decide if it’s safe to fly through them.



> but I want my pilot to not see clouds as rabbits

The poster meant it "within the metaphors". Tables are said to have 'legs': that does not confuse carpenters.


Yup, that’s why it’s important to ground these arguments in reality.




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