I’m confused why you think that, and don’t think you understand the point I was making. Would you please elaborate?

You’re really setting yourself up for disappointment here. You’ve created a dichotomy - either we should avoid automating things which can be automated (which isn’t going to happen - consumers like low prices and shareholders like higher profits), or we should transition to a moneyless society (which is also not going to happen, money is useful and everyone likes it).

Morally? I don’t think there is a moral component here. It’s like saying earthquakes are morally wrong. Technological innovation happens when its time comes, and trying to stop it is akin to trying to stop an earthquake. Sure, you can choose not to use the tech if you don’t want to, but others will. You can form comminities which agree not to use the tech (like the Amish), but those outsude your communities will use the tech. You might even get your government to ban the tech - but then you end up with the war on drugs, or south america style inflation, or North Korean levels of policing.

If you want to wax poetic about the wonderful work of hand-weaving textiles, be my guest. But I will very happyly wear a machine-woven shirt for a fraction of the cost so that I can spend my money on something else that I value more.

Do you talk to people like this irl.

Do you not? Someone says something that sounds likely false. So I say “I don’t think that is true”. And then we can discuss whether or not it is likely true.

The crane operators I work with defintely dont.

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May the incels will get laid and move on. Maybe the guy who gets rejected will go home and fuck his bot instead of stalking the girl who rejected him.

Doubtful - these actions are driven by emotions, not the need to get off. If it were the latter, they could just jerk off at home today and they wouldnt do these things.

They can say, just fuck the bot in the ass.

They can currently just say “no”… I’m not sure why we need sex bots to save us from being bad at communicating.

Marriage rates will probably decline, and so will total divorces after a while

Again, doubt. If you are getting married for the sake of having sex, then you are probably in some kind of restrictive religion. And these religions will probably tell you that fucking a bot is an abomination. If you aren’t, then you’ll marry for the same reasons people marry today, and marriage and divorce will stay at about the same rate.

The work could be done cheaper by robots, presumably. And sure, I’m all for legalized sex work. But if a machine can do it better, faster, and cheaper - why not? Fleshlights exist - are you opposed to those because they take work from sex workers? Ludditism always fails - if human sex workers are still around after we have fully functioning sex bots, it is because they can provide something the bots can’t. And I think this will be the case - at the end of the day, we know on a deep level that there is a difference between fucking a bot and fucking a real human.

Prior to starting college, my college assigned all freshmen to read a book called “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”. It was a nonfiction book about a boy in rural, poverty-stricken Africa who used a basic knowledge of science to cobble together rudimentary windmills, which brought electricity to his villiage. It was a pretty decent book, and it was a good book for the administration to assign incoming freshman to read, as it brought together the power of science and technology, the impact a single (young) person can have, and the struggles of the world’s poorest. And in the book, there were a few sentances where the boy talks about mystical spirits which were part of his people’s traditional religious beliefs guiding him or helping him or whatever. If you’re looking for a real-life inspiring page turner, I’d highly recommend.

Anyway, the summer ends and I go to college, and we have our commencement ceremony. A bunch of important people from the college get on stages and talk about how great the college is, and how great we are for being here, and it’s hand jobs all around. Eventually, the kid from the book - who is about our age, walks up to the podium and gives a short speech, and then the floor is opened for any of the incoming freshmen to ask this very nice young African man any questions they had about his inspiring story.

Cue our an-hero. After a few other freshmen ask him very nice questions about life in Africa and his plans for the future, and other things that would be reasonable to ask, this jackass gets to the mic and proceeds to try to have a debate about the existance of supernatural spirits. Talking about the supernatural took up maybe one paragraph total in the book, and had basically nothing at all to do with anything else - but apparently their inclusion was offensive enough to this idiot that he goes full /r/atheism in front of all his other incoming freshmen, a large portion of the faculty, and a huge crowd of parents. Not just asking a dumbass question, but when the nice African guy, who went through extreme poverty and famine, tries to give a reasonable and friendly answer, the dumbass comes back again and tries to contradict him - until one of the University staff inform him that he is only allowed one question and he has the mic removed from his grasp, thank god.

I still remember.

Scientific validation that Mambo No. 5 is a banger

A LITTLE BIT OF TINA’S ALL I SEE

Don’t feel bad about it. Just don’t sit there slack-jawed and staring. Anyone who tries to make you feel bad about it is just too chronically online for their own good.