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Join the campaign against sex bots!
« on: September 15, 2015, 03:48:07 PM »
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2015, 04:29:07 PM »
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Kathleen Richardson, a robot anthropologist and ethicist at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K., is leading the campaign and warned that sex robots might come in the guise of children, as well as adult women.

"When I first started looking into the subject I thought, 'oh sex robots, that's harmless and perhaps these robots would reduce demand for real women and children,'" she told CNBC on Tuesday.

1 - a freaking professor of robot anthorpology?  And they let it discuss ethics, too?

2 - projection much, prof?

3 - reduce the demand?  Really?  Who does she think are going to be the customers of these things?

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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2015, 04:42:53 PM »
On the upside, having zealous moonbats like this one direct their energies toward combating issues that don't yet exist means fewer of them to screw around trying to manipulate our lives today.
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2015, 05:01:52 PM »
Googling those sexbot manufacturers gets real creepy, real fast.

I think it(sex bots) will in fact mean less people get in relationships.  On the other hand the kind of folks that would buy a sex bot, we might not want in relationships.

I note that it's a recurring theme in a lot of scifi that robots and AI take up slots in the "Sex Trades".  At what point will folks start agitating that the AI is being exploited?

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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2015, 05:06:38 PM »
I just don't see the appeal.  even with the French Maid outfit.


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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2015, 05:27:58 PM »
If there really was intelligent life on other planets, we'd be sending them foreign aid.

Conservatives see George Orwell's "1984" as a cautionary tale.  Progressives view it as a "how to" manual.

My wife often says to me, "You are evil and must be destroyed." She may be right.

Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.

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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2015, 06:18:26 PM »
I love the video of the 'bots falling over. I wonder how many of the people/orgs building robots program them to pick themselves up.


I suspect "sex robots" would have the same effect on society as pornography, or prostitution. Just another way of getting one's happies outside the bounds of a relationship.
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2015, 08:23:26 PM »
This one seems pretty "real"

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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2015, 08:42:40 PM »
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I note that it's a recurring theme in a lot of scifi that robots and AI take up slots in the "Sex Trades".  At what point will folks start agitating that the AI is being exploited?


Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex had a few of these themes brought up, most notably Season One, Episode 3:

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A series of android suicides prompts Section 9 to investigate the manufacturer, Genesis Androids. While Aramaki questions the plant manager, Kusanagi and a Tachikoma covertly hack into the plant's database to try to uncover any possible wrongdoings by the manufacturer. As it turns out, all the androids were of the same model, an obsolete product known as the GA07-JL android, dubbed the Jeri by its small but loyal fanbase. The Genesis Jeri-model android was popular because of the ease with which an end-user could modify it to their own specifications. While the plant manager half-jokingly comments that the Jeris have grown despondent because of their obsolete status, Kusanagi discovers that a virus has been inserted into the mainframe, probably by an end-user who had sent his Jeri back to Genesis for refurbishing, which infected other Jeris sent in for maintenance and compelled them to destroy themselves.

Section 9 eventually discover that the culprit is Marshall McLachlan, the son of the Canadian ambassador to Japan. After the embassy revokes McLachlan's diplomatic immunity, the team confront and arrest him, and learn that he had fallen so much in love with his Jeri that he considered her an actual person instead of an android, and wanted to eliminate the other Jeris so that she would be unique.
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2015, 08:43:27 PM »
Blah blah blah.

The day human's stop taking advantage of new technologies in order to get off will be the day I worry about the future.


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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2015, 08:13:39 AM »

I'm hardly shocked that an ethics professor takes an unethical position. I find sexbots to be creepy as all hell. Give it a couple decades and it probably won't be. Some folks will latch onto it, probably in an unhealthy manner. But the overwhelming majority won't. Professor is a nut. Yes, creepy folks will continue to be creepy and creepy folks will use new technology to be even more creepy.

I don't think banning sexbots or robotic companions or whatever will achieve any of the goals Ms Richardson wants. And there's zero evidence to support that it will.
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2015, 08:23:47 AM »
Modern feminism really takes root, especially the non traditional views of rape, and sexbots will be much more popular.
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2015, 08:46:26 AM »
The ironic/funny thing is that there's the potential for the porn/sex industry to do for bipedal autonomous human-like robotics what the porn/sex industry did for:

Film cameras
Small/portable film movie cameras and projectors
Home video recording and playback
DVD's
The Internet

And I figure there's always going to be people against the enjoyment or pleasure of others, just out of sheer cussedness. Someone on another forum opined that only prostitutes would really be opposed to sex-bots. I pointed out that there would be tons of people against them:

- People who are sexually frustrated, but don't find sex-bots appealing, so they don't want those who would to enjoy them.

- People who are sexually satisfied with an actual relationship with another person, and want those they consider inferior, due to looks, social status, social skills etc. to continue suffering.

- Feminists who will be opposed to the stereotypical female behaviors or apperances sex-bot users might prefer.

Goes on and on..

ETA.. I think we're only at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the outrage and butthurt. it'll be the non-human sex-bots that REALLY piss people off. Furry dog-girl-bots, or a My Little Pony bot.  [tinfoil]
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2015, 11:52:43 PM »
I loves me them sexy four inch high wheels on a wombot.
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2015, 12:00:49 AM »
The ironic/funny thing is that there's the potential for the porn/sex industry to do for bipedal autonomous human-like robotics what the porn/sex industry did for:

Film cameras
Small/portable film movie cameras and projectors
Home video recording and playback
DVD's
The Internet

And I figure there's always going to be people against the enjoyment or pleasure of others, just out of sheer cussedness. Someone on another forum opined that only prostitutes would really be opposed to sex-bots. I pointed out that there would be tons of people against them:

- People who are sexually frustrated, but don't find sex-bots appealing, so they don't want those who would to enjoy them.

- People who are sexually satisfied with an actual relationship with another person, and want those they consider inferior, due to looks, social status, social skills etc. to continue suffering.

- Feminists who will be opposed to the stereotypical female behaviors or apperances sex-bot users might prefer.

Goes on and on..

ETA.. I think we're only at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the outrage and butthurt. it'll be the non-human sex-bots that REALLY piss people off. Furry dog-girl-bots, or a My Little Pony bot.  [tinfoil]


You forgot people like us, who would make fun of them.


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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2015, 09:27:59 AM »
1 - a freaking professor of robot anthorpology?  And they let it discuss ethics, too?

2 - projection much, prof?

3 - reduce the demand?  Really?  Who does she think are going to be the customers of these things?

Modern feminism really takes root, especially the non traditional views of rape, and sexbots will be much more popular.

Jamis answered #3 for you.

Many men in first world countries are not particularly interested in women raised in first world countries.  For the men who can not afford to travel to foreign countries to talk up the local ladies, this may end up being a sad, sordid substitute.
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« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2015, 09:45:38 AM »
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the kind of folks that would buy a sex bot, we might not want in relationships.

[D]ogmush makes a very valid point.
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« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2015, 10:15:37 AM »

You forgot people like us, who would make fun of them.




Oh yah, I feel like we're doing that just bringing it up. However, "making fun ≠ banning"...

Probably the nastiest phase of the argument is going to be over those who'll inevitably want an "underage model".  :P
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« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2015, 08:25:13 PM »
What will we do when some guy wants to marry his robot?

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« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2015, 08:35:39 PM »
What will we do when some guy wants to marry his robot?

Some dude already married his My Little Pony.

And since an inanimate object can't be held legally responsible for signing contracts, I think it's a moot point. *shrug*
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2015, 06:45:44 AM »
Why go to all that trouble? Mine and I simply have an understanding.
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« Reply #21 on: September 18, 2015, 07:16:45 AM »
Some dude already married his My Little Pony.

And since an inanimate object can't be held legally responsible for signing contracts, I think it's a moot point. *shrug*


I don't want to turn this into another conversation about marriage laws. I really don't. But I am amazed at how blind we've become to what has happened in the past few years.

Sigh.

Saying that an inanimate object can't be party to a contract is as true as saying that a marriage requires both sexes. And therefore it is just as likely to be the new hate-think, officially anathematized.
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Re: Join the campaign against sex bots!
« Reply #22 on: September 18, 2015, 09:59:49 AM »
And once the sex-bots get AI all bets are off.....................

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« Reply #23 on: September 18, 2015, 10:03:18 AM »
Why go to all that trouble? Mine and I simply have an understanding.

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« Reply #24 on: September 18, 2015, 10:05:53 AM »
What will we do when some guy wants to marry his robot?

Make a TV series out of it (ok, cyborg, but super hot Russian cyborg).  =D

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