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[2018-05-07] Soulmate

Posted: Mon May 07, 2018 6:19 pm
by Tony
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/soulmate

The researchers' findings don't take equity theory into account. I might fantasize 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.

Re: [2018-05-07] Soulmate

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 11:56 am
by Kit.
Or you might fantasize about feeling inequity, but in real life would believe that your partnership was well deserved.

Re: [2018-05-07] Soulmate

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 1:36 pm
by Tony
Kit. wrote:Or you might fantasize about feeling inequity, but in real life would believe that your partnership was well deserved.
True. Regardless, I'm reasonably certain that I would lose out to one of the 76,000 (0.001%) far more powerful, attractive, wealthy, brilliant, and pathologically evil than I.

Re: [2018-05-07] Soulmate

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 7:30 pm
by rabidmuskrat
I feel like the real long term answer to this problem would have been cloning the ideal mates, not trying to kill them all.

Re: [2018-05-07] Soulmate

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 7:57 pm
by 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.

Re: [2018-05-07] Soulmate

Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 6:21 pm
by rabidmuskrat
NerillDP wrote: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.
Reproduction would kind of be challenging with that route.

Re: [2018-05-07] Soulmate

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by monney
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