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		gherkinnn on Nov 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Americans are choosing to be alone, but we should ... This is like optimising porn over actually having sex. It’s ridiculous. All the robots and goggles can’t hope to recreate the real thing. And this is way harder to solve than dinner.

TeMPOraL on Nov 27, 2022 [–]

Bad example. Porn these days is a super-stimulus, and for many can be better than the real thing - little to no costs and effort required, has all the upsides, and none of the downsides.

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