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[quote="NerillDP"]What about creating a machine to BE our soulmate. Although with a soulmate working/thinking/observing at 'teraquad' speeds, I expect Turing machine disappointment in nano-seconds. Oh well, longer than my first marriage.[/quote]
Reproduction would kind of be challenging with that route.

What about creating a machine to BE our soulmate. Although with a soulmate working/thinking/observing at 'teraquad' speeds, I expect Turing machine disappointment in nano-seconds. Oh well, longer than my first marriage.

I feel like the real long term answer to this problem would have been cloning the ideal mates, not trying to kill them all.

[quote="Kit."]Or you might [i]fantasize[/i] about feeling inequity, but in real life would believe that your partnership was well deserved.[/quote]
True. Regardless, I'm reasonably certain that I would lose out to one of the [b]76,000 (0.001%)[/b] far more powerful, attractive, wealthy, brilliant, and [b][i]pathologically evil[/i][/b] than I.

Or you might [i]fantasize[/i] about feeling inequity, but in real life would believe that your partnership was well deserved.

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The researchers' findings don't take [url=http://www.elainehatfield.com/uploads/3/4/5/2/34523593/19._hatfield__traupmann_1980.pdf]equity theory[/url] into account. I might [i]fantasize[/i] about partnering with one of the 7,600 (0.0001%) far more "powerful, attractive, wealthy, brilliant, and kind" than I, but in real life I would be much less likely to feel blissful contentment than crippling self-loathing, oppressive guilt at denying my partner a more fulfilling relationship, and sheer terror knowing that many millions of people would gladly kill me to take my place.