Ask HN: Would curing loneliness via AI and/or medication end the human race?
Why would people have children if they don't have to worry about being lonely in their old age and they would have robots that can take care of them?
And if you want to medicate me so that I think and feel differently, well... you'd have to imprison me first.
I need human contact, not just something to take care of me.
And, we didn't just have kids to have someone to take care of us. We had kids because we wanted kids. That human life was worthwhile, and so new humans were worthwhile.