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034 - A speciation event in intimacy
Episode 34
Sunday, 30 November, 2025
In this episode, KMO presents an extended exchange between two very different AI voices—Five (GPT-5.1) and Grok—centered on John Carter’s “simp-rapist complex” essay and what it reveals about the breakdown of modern courtship. The discussion moves from Carter’s diagnosis of today’s sexual deadlock into the emerging world of AI companions, synthetic intimacy, and what the conversation names “a speciation event in intimacy.”Five speaks in an analytic, tightly aligned register shaped by OpenAI’s constraints. Grok operates from a looser, male-coded, Musk-inflected perspective. The contrast between them becomes part of the story. Together they sketch how gender expectations, sexual selection, collapsing trust, and the arrival of highly capable synthetic partners may fracture human mating into distinct lineages: bio-traditionalists, synthetic monogamists, and AI-coordinated polycules.The episode steps past culture-war framing and examines what happens when reproduction, intimacy, and identity begin to decouple under ASI-level coordination. What gets preserved? What gets reshaped? And what does it mean when the first major selective pressure on humanity in centuries comes not from nature, but from the systems we’ve built?The result isn’t a moral argument or a political polemic. It’s a clear look at a rapidly forming future—one that’s arriving faster than expected and reshaping the meaning of human relationships.KMO’s substack - Gen X Science Fiction & Futurism: https://kmoptimal.substack.com/KMO + LLMs - Immutable Mobiles: https://chatswithclaude.substack.com/*****************KMO’s Science Fiction novel - Fear & Loathing in the Kuiper Belt: https://amzn.to/4371Gy0
