Of course, this has the obvious problem that if you only make things too easy and fun for the dumb folks, you’re incentivizing the smart ones to pretend to be dumb.
Really smart people would agree with Eliezer here and not want sexbots… or would they?
(As for me, I’d say that “sex” with a non-sapient partner doesn’t count as “sex” any more than masturbation does, but YMMV.)
Really smart people might also have sufficiently many things that they were interested in that, even without sexbots, they might consider finding a mate too much effort for the gain. While they’d probably prefer a real partner to a sexbot, they might very well prefer masturbation-with-a-sexbot to masturbation-with-just-ordinary-porn, and the difference might be enough to further reduce their interest in acquiring real mates.
Really smart people would agree with Eliezer here and not want sexbots… or would they?
(As for me, I’d say that “sex” with a non-sapient partner doesn’t count as “sex” any more than masturbation does, but YMMV.)
Really smart people might also have sufficiently many things that they were interested in that, even without sexbots, they might consider finding a mate too much effort for the gain. While they’d probably prefer a real partner to a sexbot, they might very well prefer masturbation-with-a-sexbot to masturbation-with-just-ordinary-porn, and the difference might be enough to further reduce their interest in acquiring real mates.