Back in 2022, I wrote about how AI and sex robots could become a thing in the future, but it has been interesting to see how fast everything has progressed.
We haven't thought about it that way, but we have the last few decades conditioning people to only think about their own needs and you can't do that in a real relationship because there are two people that want things and they both have to be accommodated. Like you say, when you provide people with partners that don't require any accommodation, that will start to look appealing to a lot of people that have been living a life that doesn't require them to think about anyone but themselves for so long.
Rocky Morton and Anabel Jankel really hit a home run some 39 years ago with a little movie called "20 Minutes Into The Future" which introduced a character known as "Max Headroom," which was something of a cultural phenomenon for about 4 years before burning out and disappearing. It's eerie how prescient they were.
Progressive feminism put relationships between men and women in the ICU, while dating apps delivered the coup de grace. I think we'll get to contract dating (Cherry 2000) before the robot future comes to pass. I can see men going all in on the AI sex wave, but it doesn't really benefit women in the same way. A robot without a wallet isn't very useful to a woman.
All the predictions about human extinction due to a rapidly falling birthrate are nonsense. The other trend which is happening in parallel is anti-aging research, much of which will be aided by AI. Within a few years medical science will be able to effectively "cure" aging (and virtually all diseases). Shortly after that we'll have actual rejuvenation therapies. Humans will essentially become immortal, barring accidents or murders or suicides or wars. So we won't need to replace the existing population with a sufficiently high birthrate to compensate for historical death rates. All we'll need is a trickle of new births to keep the absolute size of the population from dropping. More likely that trickle will easily be enough to keep the overall population growing, just very slowly.
it is plain to see that when robots are realistic enough to sleep in your bed and have sex with you that the human race will go extinct.
why would you want a real woman (or man) when you could have someone who is perfect for you?
No nagging, no cheating, they will be open to anything, be enthusiastic sex partners and great companions.
you want sassy, you got sassy
want submissive? you got it!
want them to talk back?…will do
We haven't thought about it that way, but we have the last few decades conditioning people to only think about their own needs and you can't do that in a real relationship because there are two people that want things and they both have to be accommodated. Like you say, when you provide people with partners that don't require any accommodation, that will start to look appealing to a lot of people that have been living a life that doesn't require them to think about anyone but themselves for so long.
Rocky Morton and Anabel Jankel really hit a home run some 39 years ago with a little movie called "20 Minutes Into The Future" which introduced a character known as "Max Headroom," which was something of a cultural phenomenon for about 4 years before burning out and disappearing. It's eerie how prescient they were.
Now this is truly terrifying.
You’re probably correct unfortunately. Our desires will be the undoing. We’re becoming unmoored.
Progressive feminism put relationships between men and women in the ICU, while dating apps delivered the coup de grace. I think we'll get to contract dating (Cherry 2000) before the robot future comes to pass. I can see men going all in on the AI sex wave, but it doesn't really benefit women in the same way. A robot without a wallet isn't very useful to a woman.
Yes, as dating and relationships have become more contractual, I think things like contract dating will absolutely happen.
All the predictions about human extinction due to a rapidly falling birthrate are nonsense. The other trend which is happening in parallel is anti-aging research, much of which will be aided by AI. Within a few years medical science will be able to effectively "cure" aging (and virtually all diseases). Shortly after that we'll have actual rejuvenation therapies. Humans will essentially become immortal, barring accidents or murders or suicides or wars. So we won't need to replace the existing population with a sufficiently high birthrate to compensate for historical death rates. All we'll need is a trickle of new births to keep the absolute size of the population from dropping. More likely that trickle will easily be enough to keep the overall population growing, just very slowly.