There's absolutely no way it's worse than porn or obesity or - hell - war or climate change or any of the millions of shitty things humans do to each other. In fact some people might learn emotional intelligence.

Hard disagree based on neuroscience, psychology, and anthropology. There are multiple systems of the brain that deal with emotional connection. Sexuality is one system but pair bonding is a more whole brain and body bond.

Further, porn is generally an act of consumption not interaction (I get that is changing) but interaction poses a new risk of an influenza feedback loop. That will affect a person’s entire life.

I could go on about the distinction but I don’t want to write a thesis with my thumbs.

Not the posted but may I contact you ?

Yes. Feel free to book.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469223 and marked it off topic.

Fair point. Opinions about the merits of a business are off topic. I’ll consider that next time before posting.

Thanks. It’s nothing to do with the validity of people’s concerns about these kinds of products, but just the rules and the principles; they have to be upheld regardless of the specifics. And really, if we’re going to save humanity from products like this, it won’t be via HN Hiring threads.