A lot of AI-fi seems to be emotion-fi rather than sci-fi. Speculative exploration of alternate emotional realities. Not same as soft sci-fi
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it's legit, but key speculative counterfactuals aren't really about science or other minds; they're about ourselves
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correct. Didn't address questions I think of as central in each episode.
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lots of alternate emotional reality stuff likes closer to 5 on this scale, whereas much of "hard sf" is closer 4 tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.

