John McWhorter
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31 appearances
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first heard Nov 2022
last heard Nov 2022
John McWhorter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm going to mess up the optimistic note that we tried to end on.
Sex robots.
I think sex robots are on their way.
I think they shouldn't be.
And I think there's a very pro-male reason to say that they shouldn't be.
I mean, the concern about sex robots has generally been, from a feminist perspective, the idea that you're kind of training men who use them to think of women as being inert and whatever, encouraging violence.
I'm sure that's probably true.
For me, though, I think the problem, one of the really big problems with sex robots as well as that is that you've got
skyrocketing amounts of young men who are not having sex relationships at all, who are going into their 20s or even 30s, remaining virgins, hooked on porn, you know, all of this.
And more than that, also just not living productive lives, you know, not holding down jobs, not making any progress in their lives, just stuck in this kind of miserable adolescence.
And I think sex robots would just supercharge that if they ever became affordable for these men and became sufficiently convincing, which they are on track to.
Because what sex robots basically do to the monkey brain, to the evolved mind, is they give you a completely false sense of your own success in the world.
You can be, you know, you don't have to go to the gym.
You don't have to clean your room.
You don't have to have a job.
You don't have to own a house.
You don't have to do any of the things that will actually make you a happier and more enriched human being because you've got your sex robot who will give you the impression that actually you're a stud, right?
And I think that there's a, it's like super stimuli times a million, right?
The sex robot is like the most perfect encapsulation of that phenomenon and that risk.
And, yeah, I think that we need to ban them, basically, like whatever mechanism is necessary.
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