Strange7 comments on Building Weirdtopia - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 January 2009 08:35PM

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Comment author: Kingreaper 17 December 2010 03:24:15PM *  9 points [-]

The rejection case could be solved by making it such that people reciprocate love once someone has fallen in love with them, maybe even changing orientations to do so; I don't really like this one.

A more elegant solution if you're going to be messing around with love, and modifying the whole courting element would be to have person 1 not fall in love unless person 2 was also in position to fall in love.

ie. when your system detects that a person is falling for someone, it deletes that, but keeps the fact on record. If the second person reciprocates, they're both allowed to experience love.

In such a world you could also help solve the heartbreak problem through the same means, once one of the two falls out of love, they both do.

Comment author: Perplexed 17 December 2010 03:43:21PM 2 points [-]

I'm a bit surprised to see this topic being discussed here, but since it is, I'd like to mention a movie I saw recently (NetFlix streaming) that explored some of the complications that might arise.