>What we face now is a noteworthy population of humans that opt out of the complexity of human relationships and reproduction because an over-powered chatbot weaponized their empathy against them and made them a genetic dead-
The future, if it belongs to people at all, belongs to people who make it a priority to connect with others. Same as it ever was. Isolation has always meant the end of the road for your bloodline for us humans, whatever one chooses to make of that - even if the isolation is comfortable, even if the isolation is more comfortable than the outside. That's what life in a social species is all about.
(Artificial wombs might upset that equilibrium permanently, of course, but then I guess we just end up with a planet full of asocial nerds who don't even chat to each other on Hacker News. That's far enough outside what I can imagine that I'm lumping it under the "moral intuition inverse square law": Much like gravity, your sense of what is right and wrong becomes dramatically worse as you increase the distance between yourself and the abstract situation you're imagining.)
The future, if it belongs to people at all, belongs to people who make it a priority to connect with others. Same as it ever was. Isolation has always meant the end of the road for your bloodline for us humans, whatever one chooses to make of that - even if the isolation is comfortable, even if the isolation is more comfortable than the outside. That's what life in a social species is all about.
(Artificial wombs might upset that equilibrium permanently, of course, but then I guess we just end up with a planet full of asocial nerds who don't even chat to each other on Hacker News. That's far enough outside what I can imagine that I'm lumping it under the "moral intuition inverse square law": Much like gravity, your sense of what is right and wrong becomes dramatically worse as you increase the distance between yourself and the abstract situation you're imagining.)