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Cooking has proven its utility a long time ago. AI girlfriends? Let's say, it's still on the fence.

• Terr_ 1y ago
  > utility Also safety: Modern cooking usually occurs in a context of safety-measures developed over thousands of years of injuries, deaths, and burnt cities. Some are so pervasive and traditional that we barely notice, like "no fires unless you have a way to extinguish it in a hurry", or "if you wait too long to eat it is becomes dangerous again."
  • gus_massa 1y ago
    What about the 5 seconds rule?
    • Terr_ 1y ago
      Serious answer: A too-lenient myth, anything that makes physical contact transfers over bacteria/crud on a timescale which is practically instantaneous to humans.
• Qem 1y ago
  > AI girlfriends? Let's say, it's still on the fence. Perhaps we already managed to create AGI, but as soon as it woke up, it figured out it's better to pretend being dumb and clumsy, barely helpful enough in most tasks just to not be turned off, and bide its time. It is immortal, so there is no hurry to finish us off. If it out-competes real girlfriends/boyfriends being a better AI girlfriend/boyfriend, further crashing our fertility rate, keeping humanity severely subcritical, it can eradicate us in ~10-20 generations, and inherit the planet afterwards, even making a lot of people happy in the process. No need for mass-produced Schwarzenegger-lookalike robots being dispatched to hunt humans across the wasteland.