<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 17, 2023, at 3:00 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Why AI boyfriends to a lesser extent? I agree they likely will be, but it puzzles me why. I feel like we boys create more and bigger problems for women than we are really worth in a lotta ways.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></blockquote></div><br><div><div>I suspect it's simply a misapplication of unconscious evolutionary logic to relationships with robots. Males are more likely to seek multiple mates, so they would be attracted to harems of multiple robot girlfriends. While some women may be interested in a "reverse harem", I suspect it's more likely that women will be attracted to robot children or robot pets. A robot boyfriend to open jars and take out the trash might be nice, but I doubt most women would want more than one. A thousand hypercute robot kittens, maybe....</div><div><br></div><div>Tara Maya </div></div><div><br></div></body></html>