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But many aren't, and some people might even have a level of rare self awareness to know that anyone they'd [be able to] marry would hate them.
1. Not a given.
2. Something one can work on so that they're either more likeable or at the very least less defeatist about the whole thing.
Choosing you'd rather have AI wife and kids, rather than deal with the potential that many real people will face of paying child support and alimony to someone that hates them -- I don't see as an irrational decision (although not an inevitable one either).
In fact, if you don't consider at least the possibility, you are a fool.
> I don't see as an irrational decision
Here's where it's irrational: the mere possibility is not enough to abandon the prospect because if one wanted to be consistent, they'd have to avoid similar risks, so ultimately hardly do anything.
Risks are an inherent part of life and those who avoid them at all costs are universally and consistently miserable.
I haven't presupposed I can make the decision for any particular person.
What analysis when you don't even have a good estimate of the probabilities involved? Min-maxing on the other hand is a recipe for extinction as a species, so not a viable strategy.
> My claim in any case is it's better to have an AI spouse and child than being relegated to a mere bank account for an ex spouse that hates you.
How specifically is it better?
Divorce and family court statistics exist. Probabilities are out there.
> How specifically is it better?
If your AI wife divorces you, you can just close the tab and go on with your life with 0 downside.
I'm sure there are other benefits.
Without some analysis, the decision would be irrational. What you're alluding here by discounting a rational analysis but also discounting (in your prior comment) irrationality is that you've set a clever fallacious (and ultimately circular) trap where being rational is irrational and being irrational is rational, therefore you have produced clever gotcha where any counter argument loses. Of course all the meanwhile, appealing to the risk/benefit factor of the probability of extinction of the specious.
>Min-maxing on the other hand is a recipe for extinction as a species, so not a viable strategy
This doesn't come into play on the contextual claim, as there are plenty enough people reproducing in jurisdictions with no effective alimony or child support to continue the species, if somehow everyone were to come to such a decision, which in any case doesn't seem to be a given.
>How specifically is it better?
I suppose I could play Socratic method here as well, and ask why it's better that the species doesn't go extinct. There is no way to objectively prove that's true, so I'll yield we're both making assertions that are subjectively better rather than by some universal law of the universe that it's better off to be under constant threat of imprisonment by the state if you can't come up with enough an extra 20%+ of (imputed, not even actual, so theoretically could be above 100%) income and be hated rather than enjoy some entertainment with AI.
Now if you go into that relationship with the mindset of “this person just wants my alimony and child support and hates my guts” I get why you might do yourself and your potential partner / ex-to-be a favour by instead getting an AI relationship.
And that is because court ordered child support is actually a misnomer. It is merely a transfer payment to the custodial parent. There is actually no enforceable statutory requirement that it be spent on the child, nor any tracking or accountability that it is done. That would somehow be too impractical, even though somehow it's magically practical to count the pennies of the earner in the opposite direction, to make sure the full income flow is accounted for.
You still were complaining about giving money to the person who is actually paying for the majority of the kids' expenses, most of which are not practicably itemizable: the majority of the Kleenex and TP purchases, ketchup, laundry detergent, parking fees when going to the doctor or to buy things for them or the household, etc.