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Re:Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045 by Ancalagon on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:54PM (#26611897)
To be honest I think being cared for by a robot would would be pretty dehumanizing.
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Re:Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045 by londons_explore on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:22PM (#26612175)
A robot transports you (car). A robot decides your credit rating. A robot makes your clothes (weaving machine).

How is a robot wiping your backside any different?

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Re:Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045 by inglor_cz on Sunday March 28, 2021 @02:06PM (#26612614)
"A robot decides your credit rating."

That is already pretty dehumanizing. As are decisions of opaque Facebook and Google algorithms to demonetize / disable your account, with no obvious recourse to living human beings.

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Re:Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045 by nonameiguess on Sunday March 28, 2021 @02:47PM (#26613002)
What's dehumanizing is having your trustworthiness reduced to a single number at all, not the fact that it is done in a semi-automated manner.
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Re:Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045 by inglor_cz on Sunday March 28, 2021 @03:01PM (#26613136)
While I think your idea is substantiated, the semi-automated manner seems worse to me.

IDK why, but being submitted to robotic decisions wakes extreme resistance in me.

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