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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh good, everyone just hates sex. Glad we're finally doing something about it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sex took everything from me.

[–] LouNeko 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

For most people its half of everything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like one use-case of for same-sex couples to have biological children together. Which is pretty neat IMHO!

Not to say that the more macabre use cases don't exist, of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

oh yeah that's super exciting, I was just making a silly joke

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Oh, conservatives are just gonna boil at this, I can't wait.

[–] just_another_person 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Great. Now the billionaire class can just make their lil workers en masse without any need for the plebs. What a fucking timeline.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

We still need humans for nine months to carry them to term, but I won't be surprised if there are people looking into a technological "solution" to that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

didnt they carry a lamb to term in an artificial womb already?

[–] just_another_person 3 points 1 day ago

You ever see the movie 'Bone Tomahawk'? Anyone who's seen it will know exactly where your comment made my mind go. Go watch it at least for this context.

[–] WarlordSdocy 1 points 19 hours ago

Either a technological solution or paying people to carry the baby and then the company takes custody after that. Either way very dystopian.

[–] stupidcasey 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And raise the lil bastards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

The lil bastards yearn for the mines

[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Great, now science just needs to solve the problem of nobody being able to afford raising a child...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Don't worry, I'm sure we will get the technology for AI raised billionaire clones at scale soon enough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

My guess is science has solved that one already. There just is no political will to do that.

[–] Dasus 3 points 17 hours ago

Let the sex wars begin.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It is exactly this. Leave it to Musk, Bezos, and Zuck to read these dystopian novels and think, "Wow, what a beautiful future. Let's build that!"

They won't need AI to replace everybody, just test tube babies cultivated for one specific task: compliance.

Edit: Autocomplete was incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

So how far are we from using the Three Seashells and will we be able to afford the Cursing fines to wipe our asses?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

It already is and has been for a long time? Usually very expensive and not nearly as much fun though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sex has been unnecessary for conception since Dolly the sheep was cloned over twenty years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I take this back. Sex has been unnecessary for conception since the the invention of IVF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

...could pave the way for same-sex couples to have biological children together.

As usual, it sounds like the technology could be used for genuinely good things.

It could be used for horrible things too, yes, but that's often how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

What are you gonna do next, get rid of pizza?

[–] agent_nycto 2 points 23 hours ago

Science nerds "If I can't get laid NO ONE CAN GET LAID!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yayyy I can finally take over the world using my very own clone army uwu

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago

The final step for the patriarchy to get rid of women's primordial powers. But they will fail