Technology

Purity culture affects everyone in different ways. Sex bots, toys sold in Walmart, YouTubers having sex toy sponsors...all of that adds up to tearing down these old social norms that have roots in religious dogma, and it's long past time we left that archaic thinking behind.

I'm actually really interested, from a societal perspective, to see what widespread availability of sexbots does to marriage and population statistics.

The biggest danger with allowing people to do whatever they want to a sex bot is that it has the possibility to encourage dangerous behavior in some people to the point where they are comfortable doing it to a real person. Especially as these bots get more and more life-like, from appearances to LLM conversations. Rape fantasies, abuse, etc, are all on the table when no one is around. Now of course, this is an extreme hypothetical, but there are people out there who are not-right in the head and will do this sort of stuff.

The other part of it is, what's to stop a business selling life-like sex bots of people who never agreed to that, like big celebrities and social media stars? Sex sells and it'll be a reality way before regulations are put in to stop it from happening. And even when a government prohibits it, there's always the black market.

It's not even a matter of IF this will happen. It's a matter of when, and how we will deal with it.

And while I say all this, I DO believe people should have the right to do whatever they want to their property, in the safety and privacy of their own home. I'm not saying people should not be allowed to buy themselves really fancy sex dolls. For some, it can really be the only way to help with one of the most instinctual needs a human has. Especially in the disabled/disfigured communities, having a way to release that sexual frustration improves their mental well-being.

But as technology continues to evolve, we have to take into account so the different forms it takes, both the beneficial and the ugly.

Good catch! Thanks for checking the source.

Tho even in countries which have all these things, the birth rate is still low.

And needs to be even lower. Rich people use too many resources and the planet is being destroyed.

One of my friends wanted kids. She has a full time job in software and does side gigs like bartending. Can't afford kids, so she didn't have any. It's sad.

Meanwhile the ultra wealthy have more money than they can spend.

Nationalize health care. Basic income. Public housing. Enforce existing tax laws. Tax or prohibit bullshit like "I'll get a loan against my assets but that's not technically income so I don't pay anything". Break up monopolies.

The current global population growth rate is unsustainable. Are you speaking only in terms of country dominance/output? Globally, shouldn't we be encouraging less kids and contraception accessibility?

Income in societies (not only market economies, but all economies with some kind of money) is a function of one's relative power in the society. There's nothing absolute in one's income in money (as universal equivalent) connected to productive powers' development.

If that power is mostly held by government bureaucrats and corporations, naturally the conditions for population growth will not be very good.

And government bureaucracy and corporations like each other because they can have some balance of power while trampling everyone else, so government bureaucracy will not fight corporations to death.

Good luck.

Damn, sounds easier just to fuck humans

If this is you, then build your own home server.

While I don't disagree, there's also a very considerable cost difference here between running locally and remotely.

If a user sets up an AI chatbot, then has their compute card under average 24/7 load of 1% -- which would require averaging, say, a daily session for an hour with the thing averaging 25% of its compute capacity during that session -- then the hardware costs for a local setup would be 100x that of a remote setup that spreads load evenly across users.

That is, if someone can find a commercial service that they can trust not to log the contents, the economics definitely permit room for that service to cost less.

That becomes particularly significant if one wants to run a model that requires a substantial amount of on-card memory. I haven't been following closely, but it looks like the compute card vendors intend to use amount of memory on-card to price discriminate between the "commercial AI" and "consumer gaming" market. That permits charging a relatively large amount for a relatively small amount of additional memory on-card.

So an Nvidia H100 with 80GB onboard runs about (checks) $30k, and a consumer Geforce 4090 with 24GB is about $2k.

An AMD MI300 with 128GB onboard runs about (checks) $20k, and a consumer Radeon XT 7900 XTX with 24GB is about $1k.

That is, at current hardware pricing, the economics make a lot of sense to time-share the hardware across multiple users.

You mean like with applications for enhancing fraud, false advertising, demagogery, identity theft against the more general population something like that?

I'd be worried about that type of thing, I'm not sure sexbots are necessarily critical to that, but It can't hurt.