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Monday, October 15, 2007
3:51:00 PM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment.
... The second part? Probably. But eeeeeeew:
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.
My take: This dude is totally high.
Again, not about the sex part (and again: Eeeeew), but the marriage part. The wacky thing about marriage -- even in Massachusetts -- is that it needs to be between humans, because humans are the only creatures we know of who can give informed consent to this whole matrimony thing. This fellow is making the somewhat dubious assumption that we'll get over that particular bias (unlikely), or that computer will develop the ability for informed consent -- i.e., start thinking (also unlikely).
Without either of these unlikely things happening, it would be no different than marrying a toaster, which you can't do and which I don't suggest, although I guess then you'd always have a spouse who was ready to make you breakfast. Which is nice. But still.
So anyway: don't be waiting up for this one.
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3:51:00 PM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment.
I Really Don't See the First Part of This Happening...
... The second part? Probably. But eeeeeeew:
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.
My take: This dude is totally high.
Again, not about the sex part (and again: Eeeeew), but the marriage part. The wacky thing about marriage -- even in Massachusetts -- is that it needs to be between humans, because humans are the only creatures we know of who can give informed consent to this whole matrimony thing. This fellow is making the somewhat dubious assumption that we'll get over that particular bias (unlikely), or that computer will develop the ability for informed consent -- i.e., start thinking (also unlikely).
Without either of these unlikely things happening, it would be no different than marrying a toaster, which you can't do and which I don't suggest, although I guess then you'd always have a spouse who was ready to make you breakfast. Which is nice. But still.
So anyway: don't be waiting up for this one.
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The best part about gay marriage is that both guys can watch the hockey game during the honeymoon.
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ROFLMAO....
I dunno. I WAS married to a robot and the sex.....Well it was nothing to write binary code about....
Maybe he was missing a service pack?
http://journals.aol.com/st0rmwhispers/SWAOS/
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Actually, I can imagine people having sex with robots long before they can marry them.
I mean, consider all of the, er, "products" on the market that people have sex with now. Battery-operated, inflatable, and the like. All with the goal of simulating (and/or bettering) the experience of sex with a human partner. Get a robot capable of same and I certainly see a market for it -- although, at first, that market will probably be only mail-order and something people don't discuss in polite conversation.
10/17/07 9:07 PM