So...apparently Grok is going full anime waifu mode and the internet is losing his mind. Of course, the left is screaming that this is "demon tech" and going full Futurama mode on the matter. It's weird because we're supposed to be the open minded ones and yet we're the ones sounding like some 1950s conservatives screaming it's the downfall of civilization. But then I see the likes of Asmongold going on about how we dont need women any more. Idk, I just feel like the social dynamics are backwards. But that's what happens when you get the most luddite leftists who hate AI mixed with the most 4chan degenerate types on the right who are anti woke and actually have that sort of streak going for them.
Honestly, I'm in the middle. My honest opinion, people can do what they want. I don't care. I wouldnt wanna date an AI myself, i think the concept is kinda weird, and even if I am basically a forever alone type in my 30s, I'm not THAT desperate. Idk. But if other people want to, well, let them.
On the social commentary types with what this means with actual dating and the future. Well...honestly, I think that society has been going in the wrong direction with wokeism. Far leftist radfem ideas have poisoned the well with dating to some extent, ya know, women make like WAAAAAY too many demands from men at times to the point it's left a lot of us wondering wtf we're even supposed to do. It's like we're darned if we do and darned if we don't. And a lot of men, especially younger men, like younger than me, are checking out in their teens and 20s from this crap. I guess I was 15-20 years ahead of the curve there.
To be fair, the alt right has the same effect on women. Why would you wanna date in the era of "your body my choice?" and crazy alt right crap like that. Like, for as much as i rip on radfems going too far, remember that the other side literally wants a 1950s leave it to beaver style sexual fantasy here, and that's not great either. Like, women are people, they should have rights too. Let's not forget that.
But yeah. That's kind of the hellishness of the modern era on social issues. I keep saying it, it's both sides to some extent. Hate to sound like an enlightened centrist, but yeah. And I know I saw someone today saying that millennials are acting like the 1990s were the greatest time ever, and admittedly, they werent, even though I have fond memories of the 1990s, but on like social issues and crap I almost feel like the 1990s were better than now. Like, while racism still existed underneath it all, yeah, race relations were a lot better. We had a lot better balance on gender issues. Sure, radfems existed back then but no one took them seriously. And we still had some decent amount of social cohesion that no longer existed.
As I see it, the arc of social issues is thus. 1950s before sucked. 1960s and 1970s saw major positive shifts in terms of womens' rights and civil rights for minorities. The 1990s-mid 2010s or so was the peak of human civilization on social issues and it seemed like we were really going in the right direction. it seemed like actual conservatism was dying, liberalism was succeeding, everyone was getting equality, and then in 2016 everyone lost their fricking minds. The left, not satisfied at actually winning the culture war and feeling the need to start another one to distract people from the economic issues (the economic arc of history has regressed from that 1960s-1970s period onwards), ended up leaning into wokeism, whereas the right morphed into the alt right, which is just a disgusting regression to all of those ideas we thought were dead and dying wrapped all up in one, and here we are. Our social fabric is falling apart at its seams and we're descending into fascism because the left ended up biting off more than it can chew.
And yeah. It's like the old liberal "center" is actually just massively overlooked, even though it's where the action is really at. Both the left and the right are regressive and reactionary against each other, and yeah. So...maybe in some ways the 1990s WERE better? Sure, they had problems, every decade did, but I feel like progress peaked with the Obama era and we've been backsliding since.
Again, totally different view on other issues, economically we've been going downhill since the 1970s. On foreign policy I tend to think democrats get it right and republicans are horrible (clinton era = okay, bush era = bad, obama era = okay, biden era = okay, trump era = bad.
But yeah given this is a post about social issues, yeah.
As such, to go back to AI waifus, I feel like the fact that society is going this way represents a huge problem on our part to some extent. Mostly in terms of deteriorated social fabric and modern culture war causing men and women to hate and fear each other where dating has become dysfunctional, and now men would rather date AI than actual women. Like, I dont see the problem with the technology. A lot of leftists hate the technology. They hate AI, they hate what it represents, but honestly, AI isn't the problem. It's the social and economic conditions of the times, and people are taking out their anger on this tech simply because rich billionaire jerks like Elon Musk are creating it, when the tech itself is largely neutral, it's more a matter of how it's used. The left can be regressive and reactionary about it, but I don't think that's actually particularly helpful. I'd rather blame the social and economic conditions that lead to life being dysfunctional over the tech. Because that's where our problems REALLY are.
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