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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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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 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?

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever used cheat codes in games?

Sometimes dealing with imperfections and adversity is vastly more enjoyable than getting everything you think you want.

[–] funktion@lemm.ee -5 points 9 months ago

You say that and yet almost any competitive online game is rife with cheaters, while single player games have tons of easily available trainers and god mode mods.

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