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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.
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Or you might fantasize about feeling inequity, but in real life would believe that your partnership was well deserved.
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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.Kit. wrote:Or you might fantasize about feeling inequity, but in real life would believe that your partnership was well deserved.
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I feel like the real long term answer to this problem would have been cloning the ideal mates, not trying to kill them all.
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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.
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Reproduction would kind of be challenging with that route.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.
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