another banger from Roko, definitely a thinker of a time. I would first guess that this time it was a trans woman he came onto and she kicked him in the nuts
Women have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making babies
The first niche will be taken by sexbots
The second by artificial wombs
Society will suddenly realize it doesn't need women and those in power will quickly start replacing and disempowering them.
People like to consider the positive implications of technology but they don't like to consider the negative implications
The smart strategy for women would be to ban ALL of the following:
sexbots
artificial wombs
trans women
Nobody except women should be allowed to look sexy(feminine sexy), look female or bear children.
To some extent TERF women like @jk_rowling are smart enough to realize that it's essential to defend the female monopoly on this stuff. But the average woman just isn't strategic enough to go along with this, and there's (as always) a collective action problem so you get defectors.
Men have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making phallic machines
The first niche will be taken by sexbots
The second, entertainingly, also by sexbots
Society will suddenly realize it doesn’t need men and those in power will quickly start replacing and disempowering them.
People like to consider the positive implications of technology but they don’t like to consider the negative implications
The smart strategy for men would be to ban ALL of the following:
sexbots
artificial dongs
transformers
Nobody except men should be allowed to look sexy(manly sexy), look male or be bears.[1]
To some extent TUFF men like @RokoMijic are smart enough to realize that it’s essential to defend the male monopoly on this stuff. But the average man just isn’t strategic enough to go along with this, and there’s (as always) a collective action problem so you get defectors.
Society could replace like 50-90% of men in leadership positions with answering machines that record what women say and play it back at a lower pitch to simulate a male voice claiming women’s ideas as their own. Also the answering machine has a strapon equipped
Wait, are we banning electrical boxes that transfer electrical energy between electrical circuits, or trucks that turn into weird little guys or sometimes are cassette tapes that turn into cats?
I can’t tell which one is a viable replacement for men.
As always, Valerie Solanas had the better plan sixty years ago.
Whether to continue to use females for reproduction or to reproduce in the laboratory will also become academic: what will happen when every female, twelve and over, is routinely taking the Pill and there are no longer any accidents? How many women will deliberately get or (if an accident) remain pregnant? No, Virginia, women don't just adore being brood mares, despite what the mass of robot, brainwashed women will say. When society consists of only the fully conscious the answer will be none. Should a certain percentage of men be set aside by force to serve as brood mares for the species? Obviously this will not do. The answer is laboratory reproduction of babies.
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Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us.
Eventually the natural course of events, of social evolution, will lead to total female control of the world and, subsequently, to the cessation of the production of males and, ultimately, to the cessation of the production of females.
This was incredibly optimistic and naive. Many if not most women are obsessed with having children. I've had three of my long-term relationships and because I have no interest in having children, Ditto for many of my buddies. Most women aren't having children because men force them to.
this is the type of incredibly divorced energy that doesn’t play particularly well outside of twitter
since you seem like someone’s bad takes alt and your response to @[email protected] was low-effort debatebro shit and then crickets: I’m afraid our instance is breaking up with you. please run and tell your buddies it had nothing to do with your personality; clearly the fediverse just wants your babies.
Maybe when babies don’t have to be squeezed out a way too small bony orifice at great risk to the orifice-bearer, women will finally get to be people in his eyes.
I get this is a dumb question, but if sexbots and uterine replicators will make women redundant, why am I supposed to be threatened by trans women? In Roko's framing, all women, trans and cis, will be replaced by robots. I got no problem if my secret post-andropocalypse wilderness tent at Camp Hothead Paisan is the home of both cis & trans women.
Was reading "Winds of Change" by Ursula last night and this reminds me of something a character (approximately) said: men don't trust women when they band together because they see schemes. And they're right, but the bounds we make are to the next generation.