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So you’re saying there’s a chance….
Posted by Duncan on October 15th, 2007
Meaty’s Last and Only Chance for “Companionship”
… and down the slippery slope we slide:
Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.
“My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots,” artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience.
Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it.
At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, “but once you have a story like ‘I had sex with a robot, and it was great!’ appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I’d expect many people to jump on the bandwagon,” Levy said.
GO MASSACHUSETTS! Opening the door to moral relativistism and marriage, now anybody can marry anything, and how dare you judge.. you bigot…
Hey, I prefer the real deal myself, and bumping uglies with a robot just won’t cut it. Plus, if it is a robot, you don’t get rid of the standard maintenance required of any type of companion,wife, girlfriend, life partner, whatever. You know, instead of getting a human woman some wine, you have to change the oil in your robot hump-buddy. Money will be spent on fixing parts that.. um… “wear out”… and I can’t think that it would not be cheap..
Ofcourse, then again, you can upgrade the robot to a new model without the old model getting jealous. You don’t have to worry about that “time of month” excuse, or even head aches. If she gets too chatty.. just hit the mute button… or just flip the off switch if the robot starts nagging about coming in too late after a night out with the boys…
The main benefit of human-robot marriage could be to make people who otherwise could not get married happier, “people who find it hard to form relationships, because they are extremely shy, or have psychological problems, or are just plain ugly or have unpleasant personalities,” Levy said. “Of course, such people who completely give up the idea of forming relationships with other people are going to be few and far between, but they will be out there.”
So Meaty.. don’t give up brotha.. there is some hope in the future for ya…
October 15th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I sense a hoax in the works…
October 15th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
What — you’ve never heard of “mechanical sex”?
October 15th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
EECK. I hate to say but I agree with JD on this. I hope it’s a hoax too!!
WHAT?? A robot can replace me?? With my nice well exercised, well toned body, firm boobs and hotty factor?
Raven’s Boobs:
WHAT?? You can trade it in for a fresh model when her parts wear out?
WHAT?? what will you call your offspring? Robbokids?
The shebot will never get fat; she won’t bitch and moan; she’ll never say no (I bet she never says a thing); she’ll never have wrinkles and all those other flaws real humans get…how perfect.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
…and, LOL I have to ask- WHAT REAL MAN would get off going down on a robot? AND, I have to ask, how does the shebot show pleasure?? Hmm.
Is shebit rigged with wires that cause beeps and lights to go off?
BWAHAHAH….I have to make fun of this. Only certain men will enjoy her. Those who cannot please a real woman. PFFT. Those with 4 inch manjoy wonders.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Gives a whole new meaning to ‘turn me on,” doesn’t it?
Of course, Mister Data on Star Trek was “fully functional”, wasn’t he? And that Robo-Whore in Westworld was pretty hot, too.
When you order a Robo-Hooker, can you specify options like a car? Because I’d rather have my options package made by Hoover than Cuisinart, IF you know what I mean . . . .
Ouch. (Heh.)
~~JD~~
October 16th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I bet you’d sleep with a robot for some smack, junkie!
October 16th, 2007 at 11:59 am
What?
October 16th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
JD the ass is speaking to me. Making a dig at my one time addiction to heroin.
Just ignore him. He probably has a 4 inch dick and my comment pissed him off.
This is the voice of the left- this commenter is a leftard. They’re nice people now aren’t they??
October 16th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Raven’s boobs?
I’ll be in my bunk…. :mrgreen:
October 16th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Seamus… you are a douchebag.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Note to Seamus:
Oh. I see.
Seamus, I’ve never met Raven. I don’t even know what she looks like, and would probably not notice her on the street if she walked by. But I have a great deal of respect for her based on what’s she’s written. She and I share some aspects of our younger life, but there’s no way I’d ever admit publicly the stuff that happened to me like she did.
I’m also a nurse, and one of the places I work is a Heroin Detox unit. I’ve seen Detox literally kill some people. When I think that Raven has turned her life around from that, I have immense respect for her sheer guts — not just being able to kick that habit, but admit it publicly.
Raven, in many ways, is my hero.
Yet you like to post drive-by comments taunting her about her addiction. You think it’s funny to make fun of the deepest, darkest part of her life. You think it’s fair game to use a childish retort in an attempt to denigrate and humiliate her?
Fair enough. But you probably shouldn’t pick on people who’s friends are psychiatric nurses.
Assuming you’re not actually twelve years old, you have a mental age about that; and no older than sixteen. You find it hard to relate to other people, because your arrested development makes it hard to relate to mature people. You seek and crave attention for yourself — demand it for yourself, actually. I wouldn’t be surprised if you even have tantrum when you don’t get the attention you desperately need — but I tend to doubt that a little, as I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Unlike you.
You’re a coward and afraid that someone will find out what a spineless like prick you really are. (You didn’t leave your e-mail address, did you?) This conflicts with your natural desire for attention, which makes you prone to impulsive and reckless acts. You do what you damned well want to, and F**k anyone who stands in the way . . . unless they’re trying to locater YOU.
And I’m pretty sure that, like our friend Meaty, you’re a master at the art of self-masturbatory abuse. Some day, with any luck, you’ll be able to feel up a drunk college girl, or perhaps even pay a prostitute for a quick thirty seconds of shameful, embarrassing premature ejaculation.
Well, that’s the view from outside your mom’s basement. I’m sure you’ll want to respond, but try to get all the K-Y Warming Fluid and Semen off your hands before typing — it gums up the keyboard. And just for future reference, next time try picking on something your own size — like your nose.
~~JD~~
PS: Did I mention I consider you moral and ethical scum, slimebag?
October 18th, 2007 at 6:01 am
Raven is bodacious…nevermore! So blest and I was breast fed until I was in the fifth grade… A parochial school thing. Heck, liberals wet the bed until the fifth grade too (public schools), eh? As for robots, anything goes in blue states. “Not tonight honey my batteries are low?” Barny Frank is smiling!