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AI animated blog post: Love and Intimacy in an AI/VR-Dominated World
by Robert Rivenbark
Robert Rivenbark is the author of The Cloud. You can read his full blog post here.
“In The Cloud, I take Buber’s position, and also Dostoyevsky’s in his first great novel, Notes from the Underground: No matter what kind of utopia—or dystopia—humanity creates or miscreates, someone will always say “No” to it. Why?”
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“But despite the demand for total-immersion VR and sex androids, Blaise and female protagonist Kristina Sun, a rebel hacker, do find authentic love and intimacy with each other.”
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“The Cloud Board oligarchs want to keep Class Is through IIIs addicted to these pleasures to eliminate any chance for rebellion. They believe people are only animals, and animals only seek pleasure and avoid pain.”
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“AI is here; and Silicon Valley firms will make all movies and TV series total immersion within a couple of decades—no helmet needed; a neural implant will suffice.”
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“Blaise and Kristina show us that VR lovers and sex androids can mimic intimacy, but neither can supply what makes authentic human love possible: the soul.”
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“As Martin Buber wrote in his I and Thou, most human interactions constitute “I-It” relationships. We have relationships with others because we want something from them: a job, money, sex, political or economic gain.”
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“Blaise Pascal VII, my tormented male protagonist, a former Cloud army lieutenant with PTSD, creates popular VR series to try to forget his violent past.”
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“Sophisticated coding makes VR lovers very real, and many Cloud citizens never bother to form intimate relationships with real people except at work. Sound familiar? It should.”
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“(…) his paranoid Cloud overlords, who don’t quite trust VR to eliminate all human need for physical contact, also manufacture a new class of AI-driven pleasure androids with near-perfect human characteristics.”
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“Indeed, their love fuels the courage to risk everything in an attempt to destroy the corrupt Cloud empire—despite overwhelming odds against them.”
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