[ExI] The Age of Sex Robots

[William Flynn Wallace]

Should we maintain the population level?  Why?   bill w

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 4:02 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:47, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Sex and reproduction are already nearly delinked in Western society.
> The advent of more ways to have sex that do not lead to reproduction does
> not seem like it will have a significant further impact on birth rates.
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> Both you and Spike think that sex robots will have little effect on
> the birth rate. But even without robots the western birth rate is
> steadily reducing. There are still many abortions at present and the
> estimate is that around half of unplanned pregnancies are aborted, so
> that is a lot of unplanned pregnancies. Apparently quite a lot of
> women using contraceptives still manage to get pregnant.
> I agree that there is probably a minimum birth rate level where there
> will always be some people who want to have children, but that level
> might be below the level required to maintain the population level.
> Another thought is that as sex robots become more capable and have AI
> added (Siri?) they will become companion robots, not just sex dolls.
> And it would be a good idea to supply these advanced sex robots (and
> contraception) free of charge to countries that still have high birth
> rates otherwise their population will outnunber western societies in a
> generation or two.
>
>
> BillK
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