[ExI] Sudden rise in enquiries for robot sex dolls

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
BillK via extropy-chat
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>>...humans having sexual contact with humans somehow leads to the human 
>emotions that cause people to want to bear and raise children.  The 
>more traditional among us have a response to that notion: WELL DUH!  Of 
>COURSE it does, ya silly goof!...spike
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>...What's this "If"?  :)  We already have the RealDoll available.
Just add AI and body movements.... the result will be fewer children.

BillK

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Hi BillK, I haven't kept up on the technology recently, but your comments
and Kelly's comments have my wheels spinning wildly.  OK sure: spike, your
wheels are well known for spinning wildly.  OK I get that, guilty as charged
Your Honor.

But this time it wasn't just the mechanical engineering challenge of
building a sexbot, but rather the it is about the rare emotions that
engineers sometimes experience related to whether or not something like this
should be done, never mind if it can be done.  I am perfectly convinced it
can be, and that it would be wildly profitable (which means it will be done)
but now I am thinking of the obvious consequences.

Imagine SciFi style that we solve all the engineering problems and now you
have a really good sexbot.  Think Seven of Nine, and you own her.  Ladies
among us (if we have any left we haven't offended away (oh ladies, my most
sincere apologies for the way we are (we can't help it really (we were not
properly socialized in our cheerfully misspent youth (because we were too
busy screwing with electronics and such (rather than humans (which were far
too complicated for our simple minds)))))) may imagine the male counterpart
to Seven of Nine for this thought experiment, but let me write from the
perspective of a hetero male please, for it is the only one I understand.

Imagine you own a Seven of Nine, she doesn't have her own emotional needs
being Borg (which in itself sounds Swedish and sexy) she is drop dead
gorgeous, from the top of her head all the way down to the floor, with zero
flaws anywhere in between.  She doesn't mind that you and I look... emmm...
the way we do.  She doesn't care, she is Borg.  Any time you want, you just
go in there, ask her to get nekkid and she does, no worries, none of that
schmoozy oozy stuff that we boys do with our mates to get them in the mood
and in the nude, all the stuff I still do with my own bride to whom I have
been happily married for over 4 decades.  Sevvy won't do any of the stuff
that our brides do to us when they want us to get busy with them either, for
Miss Nine doesn't have emotional needs and even if she did, you know it is
just software written mostly by... well... guys like...us.  

...eeeewwwwwww sheesh.

I coulda stopped this thought experiment back when it still sounded really
cool, right after "...Think Seven of Nine, and you own her..."  

When I really think this thru carefully, I start to experience an emotion
that is rare for me: Maybe, just maybe, having good sexbots would be a bad
thing for humanity.  We would no longer give a damn about all that schmoozy
oozy gooey sweet stuff I alluded to earlier in this post, and might diminish
our collective ability to do a lot of that messy humaney stuff, including
raising children, kinda like... what has already happened... to a large
extent... due to all the internet forms of communication we have now.  Then
suddenly, even as he was typing, it occurred to the old spikemeister that he
is absolutely right.  If we fuck machines, we fuck ourselves.

spike