Interesting Video about Japan

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This video kinda pissed me off (the part about immigration... They'd rather fill Japan with robots than to treat "outsiders" like they have any sense), but it touches on some interesting points. like...what if we find ourselves in this same kind of world where women loose interest in marriage and procreation because of their careers.

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Interesting video. It's definitely true that the Japanese are not really friendly incorporating outsiders. They're also very repressed when it comes to sexuality, which is sad, since they don't have sex much. As for birth rates and demographics I think the career aspect is a relatively small part, and the freedom and financial benefit to being single or not having kids is probably a bigger factor.

As for the robots... the physical manifestation is the easy part. As for making it behave in a human-like way, we're not much more advanced than we were back in the '70s.