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Never been a parent, eh?

• ForHackernews 13y ago
  \shrug\ It's all sci-fi tech anyway. Artificial wombs probably aren't that far off: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-08/artificial-wombs http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-08/artificial-wom... There's a clear demand for advanced reproductive technology, and it would offer the secondary advantage of neatly sidestepping the current abortion debate.
  • kjs3 13y ago
    You're missing my point (which I suppose I really didn't make, so my bad). A child raise by machines is likely to be one seriously emotionally messed up child.
    • ForHackernews 13y ago
      Oh, yeah, probably. Still, there wouldn't be any frame of reference. Maybe the first generation of kids would all be weird and emotionally unstable by our standards, but they're be "normal" for Alpha Centaurians (or whatever)
    • icambron 13y ago
      Well, all kids are raised by machines, just usually machines called Mom and Dad. The question is whether the machines we could make to replace us as parents are better or worse. It's hard for us now to imagine artificial machines being better at it than we are, but, you know, so is relativistic spaceflight.