Obviously the introduction of the internet with services like OKCupid, Tindr, Facebook and texting have changed relationships in subtle ways over the last 2 decades. In some way I see them as having given more power to female hypergamy. In South Korea, plastic surgery has also increase the SMV of women.
If TRP is about fundamental truths/AWALT etc. then it stands to reason this logic can be extrapolated to the future 50/100/150 years from now. Sci-fi writers often use sci-fi settings and aliens as a way of commenting on human nature and society. So I thought it might be an interesting question to pose to TRP how you guys see technology affecting the dynamic that exists today?
When genetic modifications at conception become available and there are no 'ugly' people like there are today, and everyone is attractive - do you think there will still be a stratification of SMV (in favor of women in their 20s and men in their >30s) like there is today and Women will simply raise their alpha-standard to ridiculous extremes? Or will the SMV of men and women equal out?
I ALSO wonder how realistic sex robots will impact relationships when neither gender needs the other for good sex. Will personality matter at that point? Or will the physical desires of the opposite sex become some weird caricature of what they are now?
I was trying to think of the answers myself but I'm really not sure so I thought I'd leave it as an open question. How do you see TRP theory being applied/changing in the future?
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