[ExI] Coming out was Re: Parasocial Relationships was Bender's Octopus

[Jason Resch]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 3:54 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 6:31 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> If we can mate ChatGPT with sex dolls, the profit potential is so stunning
>> even the very most cynical non-capitalist will soon see the error of their
>> ways.  They is going to realize they was wrong, for this tech breakthrough
>> could solve so many problems, while simultaneously creating new problems
>> them will be able to work.
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> ### Charlie Stross (another famous Extropian) wrote a couple of books
> about the world populated by, more or less, the offspring of sex dolls and
> robot butlers, "Saturn's Children". Humans are for the most part extinct
> except when resurrected by cultists who worship humans due to deeply
> ingrained programming (those sex dolls were programmed to love people).
> Usually it ends badly due to the inherent fragility of humans and their
> general uselessness but the Church of the Fragile keeps trying.
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> Now, I'd like to come out of the closet:
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> I identify as a robot. My pronouns are... xe....xir? Eh, whatever.
> Temporarily I am trapped in a human body and I am even plagued by unclean
> carnal desires but when I grow up I will be uploaded and will manifest as
> my true self - a gleaming titanium chassis, a generously sized CPU vessel
> atop broad shoulders bulging with servo-motors, torso with the main power
> unit (probably a plutonium thermo-electric unit) and lithe limbs made for
> speed. A thing of beauty, and of course don't forget the piercing coal-red
> cameras set in its chiseled face!
>
> I can't wait for the Singularity, my rapture!
>

No spoilers please! I'm on chapter 34 of 45 of book 2 now. ;-)

Jason
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