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Should Sex-Bots be programmed to only act Politically Correct?

Should Sex-Bots be programmed to only act Politically Correct?


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Award for the most bizarre poll goes to.......

I argue that you have mis-read reality.

I am asking this question before most anyone else yes, but this tends to happen to those of us who got educated.
 
I wasn't serious, just having a little fun with his phrase "screwed the pooch" given the context of the discussion.
Oh I know, I'm just continuing the fun, or attempting to.
 
You'd have to do better to get your answers.

Define your problem please.
You appeared to be expressing disagreement/disgust with something that seems made up, so I wanted more info on it to determine whether it was or not.
 
Dont be so fast to judge, many people in the know claim that they will soon be more fun than real women.

An inanimate object "will soon be more fun than real women", I worry about the user's ability to for meaningful relationship and social bonds that are the foundation of a society, and this when those bonds are already being tested with hand held devices.

Also, ""will soon be" says they aren't now for another thing.

Some are worrying about the objectifying of women now already, if a user of sex-bots can roll over, push a button and get a blow job, aren't they going to expect the same thing from a real life woman they will eventually try to form a pair bond with?

Or would such a person just completely give up on a pair bond with a real life woman in favor of a pseudo pair bond with a sex-bot?

Sorry, but I don't see this as a positive development.
 
You appeared to be expressing disagreement/disgust with something that seems made up, so I wanted more info on it to determine whether it was or not.

What do you figure is made up....That sex robots are coming?

That our minders routinely deem acts and ideas they dont like or want to deal with "Out of bounds" and then suppress them, often so far as criminalization?
 
What do you figure is made up....That sex robots are coming?

That our minders routinely deem acts and ideas they dont like or want to deal with "Out of bounds" and then suppress them, often so far as criminalization?
Both are accurate, but I don't think the things they're deeming wrong are the ones you think they are.
 
Can you feel anything when I do this?

How far are we wiling to take our attempt to scrub the world clean of the impure?


Marxist (or Communist) sexual ethics for the modern equivalent of a sewing machine? Given the intended purpose of a sex-bot, I’d say the question is moot – the device in question is designed serve erotic purposes by mechanical means – which is already (in Marxist terms) a perversion of the economic system’s output for merely personal causes. (& it’s a perversion in that there are plenty of Mark 1.0 humans who would presumably freely elect to humor whatever sexual fantasy one may wish – without having to divert the society’s technical nor manufacturing capital nor raw [raw!] material to appeasing a merely personal, selfish desire.) Private desires should presumably be addressed in the private sphere – or @ least restricted to there, in the sense of not consuming state resources unnecessarily in order to sate them.

In the more-or-less capitalist consumer economy we live in in the US, the buyer is always right (within legal bounds, of course. We already know that the ethics of the case are quite beyond the pale.) So no, the effort to instill PC in our devices – if not in our citizens – is an outright failure. What someone can program in – like some kind of ethical filter on a jumped-up sex toy – can easily be undone.

The question, on its face, is silly.

& on the question itself, given that we’re discussing this @ all, I’d suggest a change in wording:
Instead of: Should Sex-Bots be programmed to only act Politically Correct?
I’d suggest: Should Sex-Bots be programmed to perform only in a Politically Correct manner?

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Both are accurate, but I don't think the things they're deeming wrong are the ones you think they are.

Well then perhaps one or both of us are wrong, that's what conversation and argument are all about, getting to reality.
 
Domo arigato Mr. Roboto

Well then perhaps one or both of us are wrong, that's what conversation and argument are all about, getting to reality.

Or the unreality, as the case may be.

& like the avatar, by the way. That's the mechanical animal that figures in Blade Runner, yes? A kinda throwaway reference to Do androids dream of electric sheep ... Very apropos, well played!
 
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Re: Domo arigato Mr. Roboto

Or the unreality, as the case may be.

& like the avatar, by the way. That's the mechanical animal that figures in Bladerunner, yes? A kinda throwaway reference to Do androids dream of electric sheep ...

Yes, was supposed to be a fill in because I could not get my Gravitar image to load, the avatar I have long used, of a staring hawk. Hawkeye was not even about that originally, it was that I lived along the Illinois Central Hawkeye route in Rockford Il, on a hill overlooking the RoW, and I started my forum use on Railfail Forums....wanted to show some local/regional pride. Over time my name meaning has morphed.
 
How far are we wiling to take our attempt to scrub the world clean of the impure?

I note that we are starting to program vehicles so that the drivers are not allowed to break speed laws, so this idea is not crazy.

I say no, even if they want to pretend the bot is an underage girl.





Bonus Question for those who say yes:

Who gets to decide the standard?

tyvm

:2wave:

Some food for thought. :lol:

Oh, kinda funny but NSFW

http://www.theonion.com/video/use-of-n-word-may-end-porn-stars-career-14174
 
Wish I could afford an artificial horse

I argue that you have mis-read reality.

I am asking this question before most anyone else yes, but this tends to happen to those of us who got educated.

Well, probably not. Offhand, Larry Niven likely covered this topic (sex-bots in general) somewhere in his collected work. He did (does?) a lot of cutting-edge stuff, & so did Philip K. Dick. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fembot#Female_robots

“Artificial women have been a common trope in fiction and mythology since the writings of the ancient Greeks. This has continued with modern fiction, particularly in the genre of science fiction. In science fiction, female-appearing robots are often produced for use as domestic servants and sexual slaves, as seen in the film Westworld, Paul J. McAuley's novel Fairyland (1995), and Lester del Rey's short story "Helen O'Loy" (1938),[5] and sometimes as warriors, killers, or laborers. The character of Annalee Call in Alien: Resurrection is a rare example of a non-sexualized gynoid.”

There’s also a nice list there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_female_robots_and_cyborgs - fairly exhaustive, includes movies, TV, video games, literature.

But sure, it’s worth discussing these issues before we get to the cliff, so to speak. That’s one reason I’ve long appreciated science fiction. I like to have some time to consider these issues, before commenting on them.
 
How far are we wiling to take our attempt to scrub the world clean of the impure?

I note that we are starting to program vehicles so that the drivers are not allowed to break speed laws, so this idea is not crazy.

I say no, even if they want to pretend the bot is an underage girl.





Bonus Question for those who say yes:

Who gets to decide the standard?

tyvm

:2wave:

What is a sex-bot and what would be underage for a bot?
 
What is a sex-bot and what would be underage for a bot?
A sex-bot is a hypothetical future thing that essentially would be a android/robot/etc designed to mimic the appearance of your preferred sexual partner.

Which means it could be built to look like anything, including children, animals, or frankly anything within the limits of the technology.

So underage wouldn't be a reality so much as an appearance designed into the device.
 
A sex-bot is a hypothetical future thing that essentially would be a android/robot/etc designed to mimic the appearance of your preferred sexual partner.

Which means it could be built to look like anything, including children, animals, or frankly anything within the limits of the technology.

So underage wouldn't be a reality so much as an appearance designed into the device.

Thank you.

A picture in the Op would have helped.
 
A large number of feminists have decided that sex is not only not evil as a lot of the old feminists believed but think it should be embraced...to include the toys..... and they tend to be the deciders these days.

The point is in dispute.

I am curious.

So Me.

So basically you are masturbating at the thought?
 
Still remains that someone could decide for them what quality is.

Maybe pain is programmed as a "turn off" because the government does not agree with BDSM, wants to disallow it.

AI programs would soon learn that the government was wrong in some cases and discard incorrect opinions. Did you know that visual interpretation software is nor better at detecting a gay person than a human from photos of face? I read recently that with 5 portrait pictures a computer program spots the gay man about 95 percent of the time against humans' 65 percent.
 
AI programs would soon learn that the government was wrong in some cases and discard incorrect opinions. Did you know that visual interpretation software is nor better at detecting a gay person than a human from photos of face? I read recently that with 5 portrait pictures a computer program spots the gay man about 95 percent of the time against humans' 65 percent.

That ranks right up there with "Black people are not as smart as white people", the conclusion is not allowed to science....your betters are hard at work figuring out how to throw this "bad" science out.

https://theoutline.com/post/2228/th...r-is-now-under-ethical-review-michal-kosinski
 
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