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Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soulmate

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Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it'll be heartbreaking.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (17 children)

I predict that once robotics and AI advanced beyond some particular threshold, human-on-human relationships will be seen as strange and needlessly fetishistic. Who would want some grimey partner with their own needs when you can generate an infinitely moldable soulmate?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I already know people who would marry their cell phone if it had a wet hole.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There are many people (mostly in Japan where that's legal) who literally have.

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