Now we talk about sexbots

"Men don't need their full set of organs. What kind of entitlement is that — aren't you recovering from your loss of privilege? Do you deserve two kidneys?"

"They could have enriched themselves with their leisure. They could have done what the men in Athens did and created a whole new basis of philosophical thought. Instead they turned to the men giving them that leisure and called them their oppressors."

"Large language models take the output of academics and bureaucrats and recombine it stochastically to produce the output of academics and bureaucrats. You can't make a welder out of that. You can't make a lumberjack out of that."

Brian and Alison on whether sexbots and artificial wombs are the escape hatch anyone thinks they are. Alison's argument is that the women the fertility papers describe aren't behaving like women who want babies and lack resources — if they were, they'd be campaigning for the baby bonuses these authors keep proposing, and they aren't. Also: whether Islam is the most feminist religion, what the ex-Soviet bloc's fertility collapse actually tracked, and the surgeon riddle that AI still can't answer when you reverse the genders.

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