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I would imagine Asian culture doesn't help with this at all, where you're expected to build your empire through career and education (the 996 rule where you wor

I would imagine Asian culture doesn't help with this at all, where you're expected to build your empire through career and education (the 996 rule where you work 9am-9pm 6 days a week, as Jack Ma would put it) while suppressing the rest. I'm also surprised something like this hasn't come out of Japan already, but then again Japan doesn't have as large of a gender imbalance as China does due to the One Child Policy. On an unrelated note, this also reminds me of the Futurama episode where people start downloading celebrity personalities into robots, and a sex education video scared teens into saying that "robo-sexual" relationships were shunned and did not advance the human race.

8fhdkjw039hd 6y ago
The strange thing about super-stimuli is it looks very ridiculous when animals fall for it; there is the funny example of a turkey trying to mate with a red balloon on a stick. But it is the nature of super-stimuli that they will not seem ridiculous when we fall for them, because the very features we use to gauge authenticity are what will be simulated. And so we will get sort of hollow simulacrum that emphasize these features and lack everything else.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  People try to mate with a hole in a wall, too. It’s not even considered that ridiculous.
- numpad0 6y ago
  Hollow simulacrum that simulate (only) the very features we recognize... I’m feeling like Live2D VTubers fits better into that description than hyperrealistic VR representations.
bitwize 6y ago
> I'm also surprised something like this hasn't come out of Japan already Gatebox doesn't count? https://www.gatebox.ai/en/ https://www.gatebox.ai/en/
blaser-waffle 6y ago
Don't Date Robots!