<div dir="ltr">Who will pay any attention to such silly contracts? If I buy a computer and the contract says it can't be used to play my favorite game or program in my favorite language or even to post to a group like this I would completely ignore it. If they limit their bot by law so people don't make enhancements to it and sell those in the sexual arena then they just encourage such sexbot entrepreneurs choosing another platform.<br><br>In a free society no one can successfully much less ethically prohibit anyone from doing anything that does not initiate force harming the freedom of others. The control freaks can mouth off all they want and rational people will as much as possible ignore them. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2015-09-26 17:51, BillK wrote:<br>
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Pepper the robot's contract bans users from having sex with it.<br>
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<<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/23/pepper-robot-sex-banned" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/23/pepper-robot-sex-banned</a>><br>
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As I have argued,<br>
<a href="http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/09/sex-and-death-among-the-robots-when-should-we-campaign-to-ban-robots/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/09/sex-and-death-among-the-robots-when-should-we-campaign-to-ban-robots/</a><br>
<a href="http://aleph.se/andart2/uncategorized/why-cherry-2000-should-not-be-banned-terminator-should-and-what-this-has-to-do-with-oscar-wilde/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://aleph.se/andart2/uncategorized/why-cherry-2000-should-not-be-banned-terminator-should-and-what-this-has-to-do-with-oscar-wilde/</a><br>
banning sexrobots is unlikely to make humans nicer to each other, and there are a lot of fundamentally different reasons for why one would want to have sex with them - many of which are totally in the ethical clear.<br>
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Of course, were someone to build a robot they might not want it used for sex because (1) there might be legal safety issues (like cotton tips should not be put in the ear canal), which is OK, (2) because they think it would be wrong. For example, a Kantian might think human-robot sex is against human dignity, a engineer might just dislike the thought of somebody putting their nice designs *there*.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Anders Sandberg<br>
Future of Humanity Institute<br>
Oxford Martin School<br>
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