Poll: Love-bots the end of humanity or just another fancy gizmo?

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Neonbob

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Sevre90210 said:
Neonbob said:
End of humanity. Because some wiseass hacker would screw with the programming so that instead of pleasuring you, the bot would horribly kill you.

After about twenty such deaths, humans would no longer be able to discern who was human and who was a sex bot, and be unwilling to risk such a violent end.

Obviously, this is only for the perfect sexbot, which would be an incredibly convincing human analogue.
Someone has been watching too much Ghost in the Shell..
Wha?
No, I've actually never seen it...are you telling me that what I thought was original was in fact an idea that has already been done?
:-S
Crap...
 

Sevre

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Neonbob said:
Sevre90210 said:
Neonbob said:
End of humanity. Because some wiseass hacker would screw with the programming so that instead of pleasuring you, the bot would horribly kill you.

After about twenty such deaths, humans would no longer be able to discern who was human and who was a sex bot, and be unwilling to risk such a violent end.

Obviously, this is only for the perfect sexbot, which would be an incredibly convincing human analogue.
Someone has been watching too much Ghost in the Shell..
Wha?
No, I've actually never seen it...are you telling me that what I thought was original was in fact an idea that has already been done?
:-S
Crap...
Well I've never seen it but apparently the second movie for said anime/manga revolves around hacked sex bots killing people.
 

titanium turtle

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In my opinion it would only be used by guys that can simply not get a girlfriend/ associate with women- as a proper man I will never want or need one because I feel comfrotable I can get a girlfriend, I just think the idea of them is sick, anyone who buys one will lose their respectability levels forever
 

Dr Ampersand

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Real women>robots. Also for the robots where is the heart to rip out or the spine to strangle them with or the brains to eat? They don't exist therefore they're vastly inferior.
 

Sewer Rat

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tehweave said:
xmetatr0nx said:
No bot can ever replace a real woman.
And... We're done.

In all seriousness, love bots wouldn't provide what a real relationship does: conflict.

Hear me out... The true reason people stay together is if they find a way to deal with each others problems, and because they want to stay in a relationship. Conflict creates stress and negativity and mannerisms that both sides hate, but without it, life would be boring.

A love bot would only love you 100% and offer no problems. BORING. I want someone who will question my motives and cause some (SOME being the key word) conflict otherwise it will get dull very quick.
This.
 

John Smyth

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They kill us all!
It's only a matter of time before Skynet takes off
Can they say "I love you"? No, no they can't

Edit: what happens when 2 love-bots fall in love? according to xkcd it would be like sticking a vibrator into a fleshlight
p.s. sorry for not providing an intellectual and sensible response
 

gentleben

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This entire thread is broken.

"Love bots the end of humanity or just another fancy gizmo?"

- Yes
- No

Rad query skills there champ.
 

Scrythe

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Love bots? Let's look at it this way:

A fleshlight costs about $60, right? Stay with me here. Now a realdoll costs, what? Something like $5000? That's five thousand dollars for fake sex. Now, despite the hefty price tag, she's no robot. Robotic limbs can cost something like $17,454 (yes, I'm using Google right now).

Put that on a frame, and you've got a "robotic realdoll" for roughly $90,000 for parts. Wow. Now hang on a sec, this is the good part! You don't have an AI yet. Some guys in Canada are working on one right now "Project Aiko" that can do menial tasks. I'm sure something like that would cost around $100,000 (my guesstimate).

But you don't want this baby to follow your finger, no! You want some cold, hard, artificial loving! So you get some sick-ass Japanese hentai programmers to reverse-engineer PA into a love machine (and it ain't gonna love anybody but you). That sound like a 4,000,000¥ (or roughly $43,000) job to me!

Total that up, and you've got yourself your very own love bot for the low, low price tag of $238,000! (Some assembly required, batteries not included. Two year warranty.)

So, with all that wait, you're shelling out almost a quarter of a million for the same thing you'd get if you take a pretty girl out for a $50 dinner and treat her like a queen for a night. So while you're making out with your Lucy Bot (PHILLIP. J. FRY.), I could just take that money and invest in a really, really sexy car. Preferably one that gets me real, warm, and interesting women that I could have a conversation with after The Deed is finished.

To quote Jersey from I Love Bees:
"Sorry, toots. For a quality experience the girls have to be real!"
 

Hazy

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woem said:
xxhazyshadowsxx said:
Is it wrong to feel slightly awkward answering this?

OT: Nothing will replace humans to the point where it becomes the norm for machines.
Unless SkyNet ever comes along..
Then again, SkyNet doesn't really produce Love-bots, now does it :p
Give it time lad, give it time :p
 

ae86gamer

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Chobits. Persacoms.

Anyways, I don't think they would. They would just be like a fancy 'toy' that you can do stuff to.
 

Flishiz

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iblis666 said:
Say its 100 years in the future and they just perfected the perfect companion bot, would you say that in so doing that it would be the end of humanity as we know it since every one would have one or would life go on basically normal?
Giving a Yes/No for an Either/Or question is really confusing. Try to fix that if you can.

But to reply, humans have genetic traits that constantly encourage procreation, so it won't effect humanity on the whole. Besides, there are billions who wouldn't buy or couldn't afford one anyway, and they have to get their sex the old fashioned way, with a box of tissues if necessary.
 

Lazarus Long

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I honestly don't get the point. Installing some servos and AI in a Real Doll is so much more expensive than an Internet connection and a tissue. I would think that the more realistic the simulacrum, the more empty and depressing it would feel.

Although her memory banks overflow
No one would ever know
For all she says: Is that what you want?
Maybe one day I'll feel her cold embrace
And kiss her interface
'Til then, I'll leave her alone.
 

Shadowfaze

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Pfft, if there was a cyber girl who was at your every whim, who would do anything, and would never spend your money or complain about your stinky trainers, then my god, the world is dooomed....