| Would sex with robots be moral? |
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| Perhaps |
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16% |
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33% |
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| Heck no! |
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33% |
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Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 14823
Location: Classified
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 Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:15 pm PG-13: Humans + Robots = A Couple? |
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I just felt that I had to post this, it's so disturbing, lol. This is a rather crazed story showing us what could be the next big moral dilemma of our age.
| Quote: | Forecast: Sex and Marriage With Robots by 2050
By Charles Q. Choi
Live Science
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.
Read more of this disturbed story here. |
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squiggy
Stooge Two
Joined: 09 Mar 2004
Posts: 3007
Location: Messing with the fabric of Video Game realities. I'll summon Shiva on you! I SWEAR!
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| Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:14 pm |
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I find it amusing.
I'm gonna start building my future wife now, j/k
*dodges smack from Samantha*
I was just kidding! Geez >.>
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Arellia
The Quiet One
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Posts: 4425
Location: Dallas, TX
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| Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:37 am |
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*shrugs* I wouldn't call it either moral or amoral... it just... is. No different than any other sex toys. I don't really see artificial intelligence advancing to the point where the robots would be human-like or near 'sentient,' but then, I could be wrong. So I don't see the marriage thing as coming up. But yeah... just like a sex toy. I don't see it as a new moral issue.
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TrekkieMage
Office Junkie
Joined: 17 Oct 2004
Posts: 5335
Location: Hiding
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| Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:40 am |
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I agree with Arellia. AI isn't going to advance so fast that we will see anything near 'sentience' in our lifetimes. For marriage to be an issue robots would need to achieve a level of human-ness very close to where Data is. And I just don't see that happening anytime soon.
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IntrepidIsMe
Pimp Handed
Joined: 14 Jun 2002
Posts: 13057
Location: New York
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| Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:03 am |
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What's the difference between this and an advanced blow-up doll? Really. they have some that even sweat now.
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"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
-Wuthering Heights
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harrykims#1fan
Fan Girl Muskateer
Joined: 08 Feb 2002
Posts: 2916
Location: Leicester UK
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| Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:36 pm |
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| IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | What's the difference between this and an advanced blow-up doll? Really. they have some that even sweat now. |
Holy Carp Really???
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IntrepidIsMe
Pimp Handed
Joined: 14 Jun 2002
Posts: 13057
Location: New York
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| Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:55 pm |
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Well that's just what i hear, 
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"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
-Wuthering Heights
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Founder
Dominion Leader
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Posts: 12755
Location: Gamma Quadrant
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| Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:27 pm |
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I'm going to have to agree with IntrepidIsMe. It's not really much different from how things are today. Sometimes people just prefer the artificial to the real thing.
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