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0 pointsnox1011y ago0 comments

In general, it's getting harder and harder for men and women to find people they want to be with.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-...

> roughly four-in-ten adults ages 25 to 54 (38%) were unpartnered – that is, neither married nor living with a partner. This share is up sharply from 29% in 1990.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...

> More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women

> Men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. a.

> Young men commit suicide at four times the rate of young women.

Yes, chatbots aren't going to help but the real issue is something else.

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oytis1y ago

> More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women

Is it rather a data problem? Who those young women have relationships with? Sure, relationships with an age gap are a thing, and so are polyamorous relationships, and homosexual relationships, but is there any indication that these are on a rise?

jimkleiber1y ago

I tend to believe that a big part of the real issue is related to us not communicating how we feel and thus why I'm worried about how the chatbots may influence our ability (and willingness) to communicate such things. But they may help us open up more to them and therefore to other humans, I'm not sure.

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oytis1y ago

> More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women

jimkleiber1y ago

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