Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soulmate
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Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it’ll be heartbreaking.
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Haha yes! I also think that public praise of healthy, stable personalities and realistic body standards is insincere grandstanding.
Everything said by a person when other people are around is a lie to some extent
I predict that once robotics and AI advanced beyond some particular threshold, human-on-human relationships will be seen as strange and needlessly fetishistic. Who would want some grimey partner with their own needs when you can generate an infinitely moldable soulmate?
I already know people who would marry their cell phone if it had a wet hole.
A wet hole does not make a phone better. Don’t bother trying.
Have you ever used cheat codes in games?
Sometimes dealing with imperfections and adversity is vastly more enjoyable than getting everything you think you want.
You say that and yet almost any competitive online game is rife with cheaters, while single player games have tons of easily available trainers and god mode mods.
It’s like cheat codes in games. That sounds fantastic, but people were very quickly get bored of it.
You would think so, wouldn’t you? But how is it any different than fast food, porn, or trash tv?
you don’t make your own fastfood, porn or trash tv. so it’s like, completely different. being able to mold your partner doesn’t assume a quick process and shallow results.
You don’t make your own robot lover either. You do select it, same as you select your fast food order, porn video, and TV channel.
Imagine a Nexus Mods for AI personalities and bodyshapes.
I strongly disagree. Cheat codes provided infinite possibilities in an otherwise static game. The only reason don’t use cheat codes today is because they evolved into sandbox mode, console commands, and mods. And trust me, Skyrim would be long dead without those.
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