<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 4:33 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>BillK wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">
"And it would be a good idea to supply these advanced sex robots (and<br>
contraception) free of charge to countries that still have high birth<br>
rates otherwise their population will outnunber western societies in a<br>
generation or two."<font color="#888888"><br></font>
</div><div><br></div><div>Considering the future probable relatively high cost of sex robots, giving them away to poor countries as a form of foreign aid to control their population growth, seems unsound.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Further, if this was done, the robots wouldn't be used for sex (much if at all). Rather, they would be scrapped and their components sold for pennies on the dollar. (Dollars of foreign aid, pennies into the pockets of actual ordinary people there. That's what happens when you drop anything that doesn't immediately help with personal survival into areas of crushing poverty.)</div></div></div>