Given that I'm not that likely to end up in a relationship that will result in biological children and I'm also not employed and that, too, isn't likely to change any time soon, I'm wondering if the $1000 up front plus $100-$200 a year might be better spent on something else; $1000 is more than my monthly rent. My brother is having a third child; my imaginary anthropomorphized DNA will probably have to be content with nieces. :/

I believe that this is not satire.

Sometimes the only appropriate response to an especially bizarre statement is "On what planet do you spent most of your time?"

I'm a 43 year old man that's currently unpartnered and childless. If there's a possibility I might want children someday, should I freeze sperm, and how much would it cost to store it?

TIL that notorious Internet crackpot Mentifex who inserted himself into every AI discussion he could in the olden days of the Internet passed away in 2024.

https://obituaries.seattletimes.com/obituary/arthur-murray-1089408830

Figure modeling for what, exactly? AIs can already produce really good images of realistic people that don't actually exist.

I like "Fork Bot" as a solution to computer RPS. It's an extreme rarity: an anthropic computing algorithm that you can actually use in real life.

1. Call fork() twice, resulting in three copies of the current global process.
2. In each of the three processes, throw a different move.
3. If you didn't throw a winning move, kill the current process.

This guarantees that the only surviving copy of the RPS competition process is the one where Fork Bot threw the winning move.

What happens if Fork Bot plays against itself is left as an exercise for the reader. 😉

Or is there some number of people that need to die first?

Probably yes. Safety regulations are written in blood.

For a human example, five year olds or people with severe mental disabilities unable to read are not actually employable in the modern economy.

Mild nitpick: there are a few five year olds that are employed as models, child actors, or similar activities for which "look like a five-year-old" is a job requirement, but those are rare exceptions that would remain rare even in the absence of child labor laws.

This is an old post, but I can't resist answering the question...

IF/IE (Yandere/Tsundere): Alice (the Yandere) pretends to like Bob but in fact is trying to manipulate him into doing what she wants, while Bob (the Tsundere) pretends to hate Alice but in fact is totally on-board with her agenda. This description is a bit of a joke - I can't even imagine what this mode would look like, let alone think of any real-world examples. This is the place where the model diverges most from reality and common sense. If we still want to salvage the model, my working theory is that the Yandere/Tsundere discourse is "unstable" in the sense that if a conversation enters this mode, even if the participants don't realize it, the conversation will become so incoherent that they'll either stop talking, or shift into a different mode.

This mode of interaction is called "playing hard to get": Alice is trying to manipulate Bob into something Alice wants. Bob is willing to accept being "manipulated" into an outcome he wanted all along, but Bob is going to make Alice work for it first.

The song "Baby It's Cold Outside" is probably the classic example of the dynamic. The "Wolf" is insincerely expressing concern for the "Mouse" when what he really wants is to sleep with her, and the "Mouse" is insincerely refusing because she doesn't want to get a reputation for being the kind of person who accepts such proposals even though she wants the same thing as the "Wolf".