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Are AI boyfriends/girlfriends empowering?

(Not my post - I found this on reddit and thought it was a different and intriguing point of view : https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1iniuih/ai_boyfriendsgirlfriends_are_empowering/ )

Have you ever heard the saying "I'm a strong independent woman who doesn't need a man"? Well I think the same about people who are dating AI. They don't need a person of the opposite gender (or the same gender, if they're homosexual) to satisfy their romantic desires. That makes them strong and independent. They don't rely on others. They solved a problem in their life all by themselves. This is why I think that dating an AI is empowering.

Note that I phrased this as gender-neutral (except the quote) - both men and women are empowered by dating an AI.

(In a comment by the OP, they clarified that they're talking about locally run, open source AI bf/gfs)

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Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?

I have an idea for a game: It's the usual "a princess is kidnapped by a dragon and a brave knight is on a quest to rescue her" story. But you (the player) plays as the princess, who is somehow helping the knight on his quest.

The issue is that since the player is playing as a trapped character, I want to make the player feel trapped, but I don't know how to do that.

My original idea is that the princess telepathically communicates with the knight and tells him what to do. But this doesn't work, the gameplay is identical to the player playing as the knight. How can I make the gameplay feel like the player is playing as the princess (and thus feel trapped) instead of the knight?

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changemyview·change my viewbyjannaultheal

CMV: There is no real reason to go back to the moon.

NASA has an "Artemis mission" planned. The goal is to establish a permanent moon base. But I don't see what we can do there that we can't do with robots. We'd have to provide space for people to live, and food, and water, and all that stuff. Not even mentioning 1/6 gravity isn't exactly healthy.

I'd rather we just send robots to the moon and do what we need to do there until we can easily build huge habitats for people.

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