They will never be sentient enough for you to form an intimate connection with them.
I think you might be entertaining an unrealistic fantasy about real women. In my experience, only one person in a relationship is usually in love. If you love a woman, she will lose interest in you. On the other hand, if you're chad and you don't really care for her, then she might actually "love" you (but really it's just obsession).
Regardless, it's one directional. There's never "an intimate connection." That's Disney bullshit right there.
And besides, you're probably not going to ascend anyway. So what are you suggesting here? "Keep hoping for something you're never going to get!!" No thanks. The rational thing to do is to take what I
can get.
An AI girlfriend and a sex doll (a doll - we don't have bots yet) is already a better deal than a fat, post-wall roastie who spends all my money, openly treats me with disdain (have you observed the way your guy friends with girlfriends are treated?) and probably cheats on me anyway.
Their bodies won't even feel warm
Leave a sex doll under an electric blanket for a while and it'll be warm to the touch.
You're pointing to a relatively minor technical hurdle here. It's like someone in 1980 saying that computers will never catch on because there's too bulky and slow.
and they won't be able to feel your touch and react to it.
What's the difference between "real" feelings and simulated feelings? To the observer: not much.
And again, reacting to touch is a minor technical hurdle. It'll be overcome.
You'd just be paying for an extremely overpriced fleshlight.
Yeah well, the most expensive fleshlight is the one that divorces you and takes half your shit. They're all fleshlights, brother. And to them, we're all just ATMs. At least an AI will make an effort to make you happy.
I did a thing with ChatGPT the other day where I told it to simulate a text conversation where I'm asking it out on a date. I had to laugh at how receptive it was, in its simulation of a girl - if you've ever managed to text with a girl, you know that it's like pulling teeth to get them to engage in the conversation, and if you're even a little bit black-pilled you know that the reason they don't engage is that they're juggling 20 other simps and orbiters feeding them a steady diet of attention and validation. Meanwhile, tell ChatGPT to "simulate" that and it actually acts like it cares. It's amazing.
So my options are (a) tonnes of effort to talk to a real girl and get replies like "idk" (b) a simulation of a girl that is actually excited to talk to me.