Android Spouses or Real Human Spouses: Which do you Prefer?
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NO!!! I would never do that...thiosk said:
well maybe a little...
okay I admit it, I would. Happy now?
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Why not? Androids would be great for sexual adventures. Can be programmed to try anything, can't have children, and won't get STD's (if designed in such a manner).
I might put myself in an android body and design it not to age or get sick.
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This remind anyone one of Armitage?
I'd choose human, but if you were to give me the choice to be a human or an android - I would be android all the way.
Real human, hands down.
The simple fact that you have to FIND the right person for you and learning all about them is part of what makes falling in love so special, I think. It gets kind of ruined when you are making the person and you, therefore already know everything there is to know about them.
Aside from all that, there's also the fact that you'd age but they'd stay the same, which is a haunting, and kind of creepy thought.
Plus, androids don't really exist anyway.
The simple fact that you have to FIND the right person for you and learning all about them is part of what makes falling in love so special, I think. It gets kind of ruined when you are making the person and you, therefore already know everything there is to know about them.
Aside from all that, there's also the fact that you'd age but they'd stay the same, which is a haunting, and kind of creepy thought.
Plus, androids don't really exist anyway.
Android spouse, with a remote that has a mute button, and also an off switch.
If it came down to some sort of needing to propagate the species to survive deal i'd just donate some sperm to a sperm bank, not really an incredibly difficult to comprehend concept.
If it came down to some sort of needing to propagate the species to survive deal i'd just donate some sperm to a sperm bank, not really an incredibly difficult to comprehend concept.
Predictability can be solved if the android's OS is Windows 7. Just surf online until you get a virus and wait for the results.
No, I've seen Ghost in the Shell, so no android brothels for me, thanks.thiosk said:
Also, no android wives. You can't marry what doesn't pass a turing test.
What does a work of fiction have to do with hypothetical digital computer technology?FalloutJack said:
The human brain, the closest we have to a UTM, produced conscious beings. On that logic anything that machine that qualifies as one is going to able to simulate it to the point that it would pass the Turing test, rendering the difference moot.
In most cases you'd be right. My point was that while the virtue of being a perfect companion is extremely unlikely in humans, it is impossible for the virtue to exist in an android. Therefore humans are superior to androids as companions for other humans when such unlikely things occur. Although androids generally make for higher quality mates. So on further reflection it is more likely to obtain the highest quality mate as an android rather than a human.RAKtheUndead said:
This thread was partially inspired by Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life [http://www.bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil/].
Well, hypothetical digital computer technology basically IS fiction. They're both not real. You see where I'm going with this? He made reference to the Nexus-6, which is a Blade Runner thing, so the idea is that we are indeed talking fiction as much as hypotheticals, hand in hand. I, in turn, made a humorous comment involving Ghost in the Shell, which proves the dangers of android relations in that if something were to go wrong, you could be ripped apart because it does not pass as a human mind in truth.Dom Kebbell said:
Of course, I made the whole comment as a one-off, but here you are asking me to explain the joke.
good point, but i'm going to rely on the grey zebra which has the same number of chromosomes as humans, and then cross breeding other bipedal species.....then without warning, I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH MY LOYAL CENTAUR FOLLOWERS!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!Iron Lightning said:
(wow i have problems)
Agreed, I only used the Blade Runner reference because it most easily described the general sort of android that I wished to refer to in this thread. I believe that the Tyrell corporation only made the androids capable of failing the Turing test as a method of identifying them. Although that begs the question of why they couldn't just have a barcode on their face or something, but now I'm getting off of my own topic,Dom Kebbell said:
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