[ExI] Do you fancy a date with a bot? Really???

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Sent: Sunday, 14 January, 2024 10:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Do you fancy a date with a bot? Really???

 

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 9:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

That voice!  I soooo have the hot bananas for her!  With a voice like that, she just hasta be a stunning dish, ja?  …

 

>>…Billw, what’s not to like, me lad?  Of course men fall for that kinda deal, of COURSE we do.  It’s evolutionary psychology at its best.

 

>…Doesn't apply.   You know she will never be capable of copulation or reproduction in the biological sense.  Potential to mate with her is zero.

 

 

Oh very much on the contrary sir.  A critically-important notion in evolution is the concept of pre-adaptation.  We live in an age where humans are pre-adapted in a most fortunate way: we are sufficiently selfish and technologically advanced so that most people can live their lives with sexually attractive humanoid robots, eschewing reproduction completely.  We can get additional gratification using modern virtual reality, of which Google-woman’s voice is an element.

 

Adrian, it all works together perfectly.  This old planet can transition to a sustainable population of perhaps a billion humans and even get there mostly peacefully.  (I do mean that literally, rather than the way the description “mostly peaceful” is often used to describe violent riots.)  We could evolve robots that take care of most people sexually, and to a large extent emotionally.  The retro types who want literal human companionship and want to raise actual literal human children are free to do that of course.  They shall inherit the earth without even having to be meek.  They only hafta be retro, and reject the notion of letting machines do the copulation.  This notion appeals to me, for I recognize in myself a retro streak.  

 

Furthermore, I do deplore the notion of meek.  I just don’t do meek, never have.  I am techno-antimeek.  The opposite.  What is the word I need?  Bold? Audacious?  Bodacious!  

 

Adrian, we humans are preadapted by a fortunate turn of evolution to be in the right place at the right time.  Ours is a fortunate species Adrian.  We have the potential to escape the curse identified by Thomas Malthus, but it requires brains, technology and bodacious actions.

 

spike

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