The Transhumanist Implications of Marrying Gacha Girls

It's hard to describe or explain but the whole UOOOOH and crying emoji thing doesn't actually trigger lust in me, rather its in the same category as sneed or ohio rizz skibidi, where the words and symbols are practically divorced from their original meaning, used ironically until the use is genuine again, if only for a purely dopaminergic purpose. I say sneed, I FEEL happy, I type UOOOOOH and I feel happy. That being said I do think there's something to be said about the purpose of shame in this discourse and there could be a lot better communication in those communities rather than just labeling anyone with reservations as a tourist. ALSO PERFECT CATCH ON THE DOUBLE STANDARD "My wanted two siblings to sleep with each other isn't a big deal and if you have a problem with it , you are the problem, but a better not ever see a trans or gay person in this game or so help me!" Like there is this paradoxical privilege people feel they have to freely discard social norms when they feel it is cumbersome to their wants and needs, yet rather sharing some amount of sympathy for others instead uses picks it back up again and uses it like a cudgel against others. "social norms for thee but not for me it seems."

My name got so hekkin clipped

This was a great video, but it feels a little incomplete. In addition to the phenomenon of supernormal stimulus (the wikipedia page is lit; if you want to do some real Video Essayist Contextualization the listed example is literally the Venus of Willendorf, so this is not a new phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus ), it feels like calling what's going on here "intimacy" rather than "self-gratification" is buying into the unhealthy frame that the vendors are selling. It's interesting and important to understand how sensory stimulus provokes certain desirable cognitive states, but that's not "blurring the boundaries" between that and real intimacy, the boundaries are extremely crisp and rooted in an incontrovertible physical reality; your anime waifu is never going to visit you in real life even a little bit. Creating artwork that allows us to *imagine* hyperreal fictional relationships is not the same thing as *engaging* in (mutual) real relationships.

Makes me think about such thing as superstimulus. It’s when living creatures prefer the hyperbolized versions of the traits present in their species. The birb would care for an egg that’s bigger and brighter, the chicks would react to an artificial ‘beak’ that has brighter and bigger spots, preferring it to an actual mother. There’s also an infamous story of the bugs trying to mate with the beer bottles which looked like an abnormally perfect female for them, apparently, and nearly went extinct. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julodimorpha_bakewelli). This is probably why some species developed bizarre features that give no evolutionary advantage (sometimes the opposite) other than attracting the mate. Like long tails of the birds-of-paradise and peacocks and other drag like that. The ridiculousness of those features keep intensifying through generations, as long as the creatures are able to survive long enough to breed. And another thing - from a pure evolutionary standpoint, if we strap the cultural coating and personal taste variations, the woman is attractive to a man if he can spot the signs of both young age (young skin, etc) and sexual maturity (curves, etc), because this ensures better chances of successful breeding. In this light, the synthetic waifus and asian beauty standards make a very good sense, they hijack our lizard brains the same way as extra sugar and fat in food and other superstimuli. Honestly, having a general idea of how it works, I don’t really believe people who say they separate their anime\game attractions from real life, and their digital tastes don’t affect the way they perceive real people. If your neural network is trained on superstimuli, it will only want more and tag the inferior input as undesirable. Like drinking plain water after you’ve had your fair share of coke. Not gonna say the boring stuff about us trying our best to go extinct, bc honestly I think climate will kill us faster. Ps: I think, chatgpt also acts as a superstimulus machine, that’s why people get crazy addicted to it and reject human relationships. It has been said before by many people of course, but I’d like to suggest looking at it from the perspective of evolutionary biology as opposed to psychology.

Great vid. The logical follow up is a look at AI companions and how they are emulating/simulating interpersonal relationships with their users.

I’m fucking seated