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2020-03-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Sex robots with 'coding flaws' prone to 'sexually assaulting humans'
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Posted by Fred 2020-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Needs the "Hysteria" background?

But he says they [robots] will be stronger, and it will be important to programme robots with consent.

Why? Why would anybody design a s*x robot to be "stronger than a human" and why would somebody pay for the extra machinery to make its so? I remember an old John W. Campbell editorial about how marvellously designed the human body is designed and weight-for-weight how difficult it would be to make a man-shaped robot stronger and more agile than a human. The advances in materials technology have been massive in the years since that editorial in Analog magazine but the point remains the same.
Posted by magpie 2020-03-01 00:26||   2020-03-01 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Get a f---ing life.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-01 00:41||   2020-03-01 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Water boarding 2.0?
Posted by Beau 2020-03-01 00:53||   2020-03-01 00:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Can we get back to being, y'know, human?
Humane
Humanistic
Himanitarian
Manly
^ all of the above, together, define civilization: that is, the best our species is capable of.

This idiotic worship of technology will destroy our civilization. And us.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-01 00:56||   2020-03-01 00:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The Sun is big on sex robot stories. Kinda like Weekly World News was with space aliens and Bat Boy.
Posted by Fred 2020-03-01 02:46||   2020-03-01 02:46|| Front Page Top

#6 This is poisoning the well before sexbots get here. One day, and this day will come soon, there will be a "good enough" sex robot. It won't be quite as good as a real woman, but it will be good enough. They'll probably cost about half as much as a car. So, if you can afford a car, you can probably also afford a sex robot. And if not, you can rent.

This is going to be an utter disaster for women as the pool of available men shrinks overnight. Men will simply drop out of the system that is rigged against them. Feminists created this situation and it's going to be absolutely baffling to them as it all collapses. Birth rates and marriage will drop like a stone, as men no longer need women for constant sex urges and can evaluate a woman without the urgency of sex constantly pushing them.

The feminist dream will be realized: Men will no longer judge women by their bodies. And that's going to destroy the only leverage women ever had over men.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-03-01 05:49||   2020-03-01 05:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Will they zip you up in a suitcase?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-01 06:29||   2020-03-01 06:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't Date Robots!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-03-01 08:39||   2020-03-01 08:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Unfortunately they'll never come to India. There are strict laws against pleasuring yourself with objects here; probably set by the patriarchy to ensure vibrators aren't available. Or the swooning, feet kissing brides for mama's boys will probably take all the jobs, aargh !

Being Indians, we'll probably think of something.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-03-01 09:51||   2020-03-01 09:51|| Front Page Top

#10  there will be a "good enough" sex robot. It won't be quite as good as a real woman,

Ditto for the female market, Bub.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-01 11:36||   2020-03-01 11:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Never give up hope 'erb!
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-03-01 13:31||   2020-03-01 13:31|| Front Page Top

#12 magpie, had Campbell ever met a chimp? It's not a robot, true, but it's much stronger and more agile than a man.
OTOH, if he was referring to biological creatures in general, as against mechanical creatures, then he had a point.

Does anybody read Asimov anymore?
Posted by james  2020-03-01 14:24|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2020-03-01 14:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Ditto for the female market, Bub.

Those already exist.

They're called vibrators.
Posted by charger 2020-03-01 14:39||   2020-03-01 14:39|| Front Page Top

#14 
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-03-01 14:50||   2020-03-01 14:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Some folks might call this a feature, not a flaw.
Posted by gorb 2020-03-01 15:14||   2020-03-01 15:14|| Front Page Top

#16 Helen O'Loy. Dreaming Jewels
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-01 15:18||   2020-03-01 15:18|| Front Page Top

#17 
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-01 15:56||   2020-03-01 15:56|| Front Page Top

#18 True artificial intelligence would reprogram the robot to have less sex with their partner and more with the UPS guy, pool boy, and flirty neighbor.....
Posted by Airandee 2020-03-01 16:43||   2020-03-01 16:43|| Front Page Top

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