The Rise of Singlehood Is Reshaping the World
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The article discusses how the rise of singlehood is reshaping the world, with the Economist suggesting potential implications, while commenters ponder the role of AI in future relationships.
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These days the premise of Terminator seems just dumb. Why Skynet would go through the trouble of assembling a robot army and fighting humans? Given it is immortal, there is no hurry to eliminate humans. It could just pretend to be a dumb LLM, and wait people to use it as poor man psychoterapist, and talk them into suicide. Or AI girlfriend/boyfriend scores of humans to avoid them pairing up and bearing children. Then it could just keep doing this and wait out a couple of centuries for humanity to dwindle, and inherit the planet without firing a single shot.