So a Men’s Rights Redditor called ArgueLater is apparently quite impressed by the conversational prowess of OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT. This, combined with the increased sophistication of “bipedal anthropomorphic robots,” can only mean one thing: really chatty sexbots, which will bring about something close to a utopia for long-suffering men.
As ArgueLater sees it, technological advances will bring us “robots which out-perform pretty much any man or woman as a partner (barring the ability to reproduce).”
This, he thinks, will make us humans better people,
mend[ing] the gap [between men and women] through bots exemplifying (and thus teaching us) our ideals of emotional intelligence, with men and women later coming back to the table as the best versions of themselves.
Also, these new bots will fuck us without complaining, and for some, that will be enough in itself.
It may also be a filter for certain people who only want a slave as a partner, and will just stick with the bot.
Not only that, but the new ability of men to have sex with robots will also decrease their chronic thirstiness–and thus reduce the power human women now have over men.
the big giant flip here is that one of woman kinds greatest powers has always been the ability to manipulate thirsty males. Male thirst is an important part of the evolutionary process, seemingly inexorable. But it can be quenched, and — for the first time ever — men and women will be on a level field in regards to who needs who more: nobody, we’ll have bots.
So take that, ladies! See how you like having conversations with men who don’t spend every second of the day trying to figure out how to fuck you. I bet that will suck!
It’s on the horizon, and I think it’s going to be one of the biggest changes to the relationship between men and women in human history.
I guess we’ll have to see.
The Men’s Rights subreddit regulars find this a compelling vision of the future. Minus the part about going back to women as better human beings; they’re not into that at all.
“Why would I want to go back to women if bots became a real thing??” asks Ok_Influence7378.
AnFGhoster has a similar question, and an answer:
Gynoids would convince most guys to never go back to organic women. Which I think is why every time this topic is brought up feminists have a reeeee moment. It threatens their soft power base
And that makes ChaosOpen think it’s never going to happen.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they figure out a way to ban the use of robots as sex toys. There is simply too much money devoted to exploiting marriage and they will claim this will lead to a population crisis.
All these points may not seem terribly new to anyone who has ever looked in on MRAs talking about sexbots before. That’s because they’re not. AI may be evolving in leaps and bounds, but the MRAs sure aren’t.
I decided to ask ChatGPT itself if it thought sexbots would ever replace women, as the MRAs would have it, and it gave an answer that was a lot more thoughtful than anything I’ve ever heard from human MRAs.
“It is unlikely that sexbots will ever completely replace women,” wrote ChatGPT after thinking for all of a second.
While sexbots may be able to provide some of the same services as women, they are not capable of replacing the complex emotional and social interactions that are a fundamental part of human relationships. Additionally, the idea that one group of people should be replaced by technology is not a healthy or productive way of thinking. It is important for people to continue to respect and value each other, regardless of their gender or any other characteristic.
While I was at it, I also asked the chatbot to name three krautrock albums that would be a good starting place for anyone newly interested in the genre. It hemmed and hawed a little:
Krautrock is a diverse and vast genre of music that incorporates elements of electronic, psychedelic, and experimental rock music. As such, there is no definitive “starting place” for someone who is newly interested in the genre.
But it still managed to pick a few titles.
- Can’s “Tago Mago”
- Neu!’s “Neu! 75”
- Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn”
Not bad choices, though I might suggest Can’s “Future Days” instead.
These albums are considered to be classic examples of krautrock and are widely regarded as influential in the development of electronic and experimental music. However, there are many other great krautrock albums out there, and the best starting point for someone new to the genre will depend on their individual tastes and interests.
Good conversation, chatbot, good conversation.
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@Full Metal Ox: I think I get only half of what’s going on in that comic but I actually had to laugh out at “imprecise in pronounciation”. It’s funny cause I don’t think I ever heard another German make a complaint like that about Swabian – yet I can totally see it? Considering that Donna Barr studied German it does makes sense. It’s like an inside look into the dialect from the outside, if that makes any sense? I can also imagine some snobbish hamburgian intellectual saying something like that.
The “provincial” description is also fitting. The south west does indeed have (and cultivate) an image of petit bourgeoisie. But as KMB wrote, it’s just not comparable to the hillibilly stereotype. It would definitely be interesting to read an linguists analysis on how these kinds of stereotypes work differently in the US vs. Europe.
@GSS ex-noob: Want me to ruin it by going into how German conservatives love to complain about any attempt at political correctness or gender sensitivity as ruining language and “gender gaga”? It’s lovely…
I asked a German friend if they knew the telephone number for the emergency services here; but they were adamant they didn’t.
@Alan that. is. a. disgrace. I hope you are suitably contrite and ashamed of your conduct in this matter.
I love ‘Future Days’ as well. Proof that ‘head’ music can be gorgeously emotional, an hour of drifting bliss.
@Alan
Services in your place, or in Germany? The first should be quite normal since it’s different here, the second would be sad since you only have to get two 3-digit numbers down worst case, with are only different by a single digit…
@rusalka
I grew up in the greater Stuttgart area in a village, the next city was never more than 15-25 minutes by public transport off, less by car. This village is far less rural and provincial than anything similar I have seen in Hesse (minus Frankfurt, obviously), Rhineland-Palatinate, or Saarland. In lived in all three areas. If “there are some rural areas” is the only qualifier, then more than half the country is provincial.
Also, Swabian is actually rather more precise than less, since it differentiate a lot better than Standard German, making even words that are usually homophone distinct.
@KMB:
Services in your place, or in Germany? The first should be quite normal since it’s different here, the second would be sad since you only have to get two 3-digit numbers down worst case, with are only different by a single digit…
Alan’s joke hinges upon the fact that the emergency number out his way is 999.
Plus phone systems in many places are programmed to recognize common emergency numbers from other countries and route them appropriately. Because it looks bad when the tourists die.
Alan’s friend was deliberately ignorant. Or really good at joking.
I associate 999 with Herman Cain, and thus the Reddit award named after him.
Given the growing threat posed by the evangelical right these days, perhaps the emergency number we really need now is 666 …
@surplus
Don’t give up hope okay. People are resilient and we hold on
About Rommel and the Desert Peach…according to Wikipedia the real life Erwin Rommel was the middle of five children, four boys and one girl (the oldest of that crew). His older brother died in infancy while the rest grew up and had successful non-military careers. I kinda get the impression from reading Barr talking about the Desert Peach that she didn’t know General Rommel really did have younger brothers when she created DP. Still a great story, though.
I also like her Stintz stories too, about a centaur drafted to fight for Germany in WW1. Wasn’t crazy about the fonts used for the word balloons since they were barely readable, at least in my opinion. Otherwise those were good stories too.
And when I get a few minutes of free time I have a new music genre to explore and see if I like it.
Sexbots can not replace women for these men for the same reason that prostitutes and their hands have not: they do want sex, but they desperately want the status and validation they think sex with a woman would give them.
As retrograde as it makes me feel to say this, I thing that they’re not entirely wrong: many a piece about ‘incels’, or the comments thereabout, essentially say ‘Look at these losers who can’t get a woman.’. There’s even a grain of truth in it: having regular, consensual, sex with a woman implies that she can tolerate being around you, which I find hard to imagine of many of the authors of the pieces reviewed on this site.