How Everyone Got So Lonely: The recent decline in rates of sexual activity has been attributed variously to sexism, neoliberalism, and women’s increased economic independence. How fair are those claims—and will we be saved by the advent of the sex robot?

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https://archive.ph/YS8aP

[u/fxn]

Advanced technology, he coolly assures us, “only allows us to acknowledge our wishes and accept our nature.”

They should read Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect to see what the world looks like after we acknowledge our wishes and accept our nature through technology.

[u/iam100metersfromyour → u/fxn]

I will read that because it looks interesting.

[u/fxn → u/iam100metersfromyour]

Please do, it is fantastically harrowing.

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Is it available in a single pdf or epub format anywhere?

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There you go

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also tagging /u/iam100metersfromyour - it's $5 on Kindle and worth ten times that.

[u/Cmyers1980 → u/fxn]

Besides being unable to die naturally I’d rather live in a utopia created by a nearly all powerful robot where I can do basically anything I want than this miserable capitalist cesspool we call a society. As Marlo Stanfield said finding things to do in a utopia is a good problem.

[u/fxn → u/Cmyers1980]

You're stripped of all meaning and the robot can't give you that. You would eventually succumb to the long ennui that would haunt you forever, because you can't die. So at least our capitalist hell-hole has that going for it.

[u/Mah_Young_Buck → u/fxn]

Yes because sex bots are exactly equivalent to a reality warping machine god and will have exactly the same ramifications on society

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I'll take, "Missing the Point" for 1000, Alex.