ikrase comments on Interpersonal Entanglement - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2009 06:17AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (160)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: pedanterrific 19 February 2012 08:10:43PM 1 point [-]

Where "nonsentient romantic/sex partner" is pretty much what I use the word "catgirl" to indicate, in futuristic discourse. The notion of creating sentient beings to staff a volcano lair, gets us into a whole 'nother class of objections.

The link makes it clear that "nonsentient" is being used to mean "not-a-person", not 'incapable of feeling even as much as an insect'.

Comment author: ikrase 14 September 2012 03:20:55AM 0 points [-]

I personally find particularly unintelligent women pretty unattractive even when thinking in terms of short-term relationships based mostly in sex.

The Verthandi in Failed Utopia seem not even vaguely catgirllike: I think that the genie there just created two entire races.

Important thing: Most of my really big romantic fantasies involve either being really powerful and meeting a lover with high but unrealized potential and raising her to my level, or consist of meeting a powerful lover and her raising me to her to my level. This seems rather at variance with catgirls.