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  • As the government of a developed country, This house would subsidize R&D towards human-like AI partners

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    "Human-like AI partners" refer to humanoids that physically appear and function like human beings. They are not sentient but are programmed to act and respond based on learned behavior about what their human-partners would best want from them. (See examples of character.ai , ChatGPT , etc. for analogues to the level of sentience).

    Oragon Debate Cup 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-05

  • This house would stop consuming the concotion

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    You are Dr. Jekyll living in early 19th century Edinburgh. You find Victorian society, and its standards of moral deceny (eg. Evangelicalism, high work ethic, extreme prudeness, etc.) to be stifling and tedious. In response, you have conditioned yourself to be soft-spoken, humble, prudish, and demure. You no longer have the skills or confidence to express your feelings and desires to be arrogant, passionate and sexual. You have invented a chemical concoction which eliminates the conditioning you have placed on yourself. It temporarily gives you with the confidence and skills you were lacking. You privately tested it in small dosages, but it often leaves you feeling uneasy and nauseous. This concotion transforms you into a dashing handsome figure which no one recognises as Dr. Jekyll. One day, under the influence of the concoction, you see a ghost and realise you can communicate with them.

    Edinburgh Cup 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-09-28

  • This house prefers a world where love is quantifiable.

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    In a world where love is quantifiable, relationships thrive on data-driven insights. Various tools offer a detailed understanding of relationship dynamics, i.e., apps that track interactions and wearable devices that monitor physiological responses. These technologies log conversations and shared activities, enabling partners to evaluate their relationship using concrete data.

    Pakistan Pre-ABP 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-09-27

  • This house prefers the narrative that committed long-term romantic relationships should be start ups over the narrative that they should be mergers

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    A narrative that suggests romantic relationships should be "start ups" encourages participants to view a relationship as a joint venture where the goal is building a life together from the ground up. This can include working to make new joint friends (often "couple friends"), choosing hobbies to do together, developing close relationships with each other's friends/families and considering the effect of one's choices on the success of the relationship (e.g., what jobs to take, whether or not to move cities). A narrative that suggests that romantic relationships should be "mergers" encourages participants to view a relationship as a way to create synergies between two already fully formed lives. This can include having separate hobbies, prioritizing one own's friends/ family, and making choices about one's career or city independently. A "merger" relationship encourages both individuals to fully have built up their lives before seeking a committed relationship, whereas a start up relationship does not

    Princeton IV 2024 · Partial-double Quarterfinals · 2024-09-21

  • This house, as a Gen Z, would deviate from the relationship escalator

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    In status quo, religious and patriarchal upbringing put a premium on pursuing monogamous marriage via a specified progression and order of activities for romantic partners to undertake. That is, individuals first go out on dates, and then entertain more physical intimacy such as holding hands and kissing, before moving on to sexual intercourse, marriage, and eventually raising children. This is referred to as the "relationship escalator" in some relationship discourses.

    Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2024 · Round 6 · 2024-09-07

  • This house supports the sensationalization of queerplatonic relationships

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    Queerplatonic (QP) attraction, coined by the Aro-Ace community, is distinct from both platonic and romantic attraction. It is characterized by intense feelings towards someone and a deep emotional connection that cannot be strictly categorized as platonic or romantic. This can occur between any permutation of genders; i.e. a straight man may feel QP attracion for another man, etc. People with mutual QP attraction may choose to establish QP relationships which are committed but non-romantic.

    Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2024 · Round 6 · 2024-09-07

  • This house would burn the letter without having read it.

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    There exists a village where on their 18th birthday every youth receives a letter that lets them know the exact time and date of their death, but not the cause. This letter is never wrong.

    AUD Equinox Pre-ABP 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-08-31

  • This house supports the rise of prenuptial agreements in the Philippines.

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    A prenuptial agreement is a legally enforceable written contract entered into by a couple prior to marriage that enables them to select and control many of the legal rights they acquire upon marrying, and what happens when their marriage eventually ends by death or divorce.

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-08-27

  • This house opposes "settling"

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    "Settling" refers to the idea of staying in a relationship where certain needs are not fulfilled or you are making compromises in some aspects that you consider crucial to a relationship. For example, a relationship where your desire for physical attraction and/or romantic compatibility is not fully satisfied.

    Sunway Debate Open 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-08-24