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submitted 11 months ago by Crul@lemm.ee to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soulmate

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Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it'll be heartbreaking.

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[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I predict that once robotics and AI advanced beyond some particular threshold, human-on-human relationships will be seen as strange and needlessly fetishistic. Who would want some grimey partner with their own needs when you can generate an infinitely moldable soulmate?

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago

I already know people who would marry their cell phone if it had a wet hole.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A wet hole does not make a phone better. Don't bother trying.

[-] sour@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

forget about wet hole sentience better

[-] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

Sentience or sapience?

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 0 points 11 months ago

There are many people (mostly in Japan where that's legal) who literally have.

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