<div dir="ltr">I don't think I would personally, but the history of the development of free pornography distribution on the internet tells me that a /lot/ of people would.<div><br></div><div>"Beavers will instinctively build a dam anywhere they hear the sound of running water. Even if they're inside a normal house and the sound is a recording. Isn't that wild?"</div><div><br></div><div>"You should see what I do when the pixels look like an unclothed member of the opposite sex signalling sexual availability."</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 3:36 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 22:02, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat<br>
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> Can sufficiently advanced robots and computer programs provide companionship and/or erotic stimulus. sure. Mentally ill people can find those in all sorts of places.<br>
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> But marriage? If marriage ever had anything to do with romantic commitment, let alone sex, let alone childrearing, the last 50 years of activist jurisprudence have thoroughly severed that attachment.<br>
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Well, I guess even the advanced AI robots that the article is<br>
discussing would not be able to produce children.<br>
Although, this might not be a problem. The birth rate throughout the<br>
Western world is already collapsing, as younger people decide either<br>
that they don't want children, or they can't afford the costs of<br>
rearing them.<br>
If the AI robots have not achieved legal personhood, then legal<br>
marriage, inheritance, etc, would not apply.<br>
Then we would have to change the question.<br>
Would you live with an AI robot as "friends with benefits" for companionship?<br>
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BillK<br>
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