Bret Weinstein
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are vital to civilization working, right?
The family unit is profoundly important and we are disrupting, not only are we disrupting the way it functions, but we're disrupting whether or not it even forms because frankly, it's not that attractive a deal to sign up for a lifelong relationship with somebody who's been broken in this way.
The robot loves you and your potential partners are getting less desirable.
The robots are getting more desirable.
The robot doesn't argue.
The robot wants me to play golf.
So I think that, look, I keep waiting for a movement to start in which young people who have yet to form these relationships put out a set of rules.
And they say, here are the rules I'm going to abide by, and I'm only going to date people who abide by them too, right?
I would say this, you know, if I was writing the rules, one of them would be no sex with somebody that you know is not a long-term partner.
You're not committing to a long-term relationship when you have sex with somebody necessarily, but if you know somebody is not a candidate necessarily,
you shouldn't be engaging in baby-making behavior with them, right?
Yeah, but nobody's happy.
So given that they're not happy, the answer is, OK, well, I'm doing something.
Well, I would say it is rare to find young people who express that they are happy with this part of their life.
The process kind of sucks, but I've met plenty of people, and I've been a happy young person.