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Humans retreating from other humans for their social needs (as with pornography before AI) takes the propinquity away from reproduction. Breeding becomes a prog
by delichon 10mo ago
Humans retreating from other humans for their social needs (as with pornography before AI) takes the propinquity away from reproduction. Breeding becomes a progressively more intentional, high agency act. Without some compensating force, fertility drops. Artificial companionship may be an existential threat to a social species.
- catskul2 10mo ago... or circumstances now select for "high agency" humans, and those humans propagate. Not sure why we think normal evolution wouldn't just route around such problems.
- delichon 10mo agoIt certainly will but not necessarily to our species' benefit. I'd be less concerned if I understood why this happens in mice: https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941 https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941
- sph 10mo agoEvolution operates in much larger time scales.
- Dilettante_ 10mo agoEvolution operates at every time scale.