[ExI] robot makes dinner

[Kelly Anderson]

The headline here is clearly "Sex Robots have not Fully Penetrated
Africa Yet"...

Good one.

-Kelly

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 10:43 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
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> >>.. Meh.  Dinner schminner...
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> >...Anyway, you do realise that your money-making pleasure toy is one of the
> possible reasons for species going extinct?...
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> BillK, on the contrary sir.  Such a thing would not cause the extinction of
> the species, any more than birth control pills did.  There will always be
> those with a religious notion that it is their sacred duty to breed, or that
> it is a sin to pleasure oneself with artificial devices.
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> Also note: much of our current western technology has not fully penetrated
> the African continent.  There are plenty of humans available there who have
> never used a computer and have little risk of failing to breed because of
> our K2SO.  That whole notion is a western dissipation.
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> >...With AGI running everything and humans playing with pleasure toys and
> virtual reality, whose job is it to continue the species?  BillK
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> Do let me reassure you BillK, humanity is in no danger of extinction, none.
> Humanity does not suffer habitat contraction.  Ours is the only species to
> have mastered habitat expansion, at the expense of every other species.
> Humans can live anywhere, after rearranging the local habitat to suit our
> needs.
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> The whole question is analogous in a way to uploading.  If uploading is
> possible (and I think it is (based on my unsupported faith that the magic
> act we call consciousness is not substrate dependent)) and we develop that
> technology (and I think we eventually will) then some subset of humanity
> will eventually upload.  When or if that happens, biological humanity will
> still be here on this planet, and life will go on without us.
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> spike
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