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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[–] 63 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Both can be true.

When you're cultivating a relationship with a real person their wants and desires also factor into your choices, assuming you aren't a psychopath. They will want different things from you, and keeping that to themselves and never pushing back just makes them miserable and builds resentment. Similarly, you don't want to impose unreasonable expectations on them. Whether that's related to their behaviour or their appearance, no one can reasonably expect to get exactly what they want 100% of the time, and that's part of a healthy relationship.

...but if you're constructing an artificial partner from a blank slate that's completely bespoke to you, to choose anything other than an idealized match for all your desires is frankly insane, and to pretend otherwise is simply disingenuous.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I got sooooo lucky and just found a copy of me. That’s not what everyone wants, but they’re exactly the perfect match for me. We’re together 24/7 and have been for over a decade. No fights. I wish the same success for everyone who deserves it (everyone who isn’t a piece of shit)!

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Please share this diagram.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Haha yes! I also think that public praise of healthy, stable personalities and realistic body standards is insincere grandstanding.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    can i have cuter laptop

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 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?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's like cheat codes in games. That sounds fantastic, but people were very quickly get bored of it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You would think so, wouldn't you? But how is it any different than fast food, porn, or trash tv?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    you don't make your own fastfood, porn or trash tv. so it's like, completely different. being able to mold your partner doesn't assume a quick process and shallow results.

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