-because evolution didn't design women and men to be optimal partners for each other, and the AI is prohibited from editing people's minds, the happiness-maximizing solution ends up
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-the AI splits up the human species by sex and gives women and men their own _separate_ utopias, complete with artificially-synthesized
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-[on my reading, it's an important part of the argument that _verthandi_ are a _separate thing_, not just synthesized women]