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The Campaign Against Sex Robots raises red flag for violence and victimization, calls [tr]
Tech Republic ^ | December 21, 2015 | Hope Reese

Posted on 12/21/2015 12:43:58 PM PST by C19fan

Kathleen Richardson is worried about sex robots. Now a robot ethics researcher at De Montfort University, she's spent the last 15 years looking at robots "designed to take on intimate roles, that were once thought off-limits to machines—companions, friends, lovers."

While the concept of a robo-girlfriend may seem farfetched, there is the prediction that most of us—yes, you read that right—will be having sex with robots by the year 2050. And although sex robots are nowhere near mainstream, companies like True Companion and RealDoll have already developed strikingly realistic models (if you have any doubt about how realistic, look at the New York Times video). Some of these "companions" can engage in "conversation," and can even download different personalities.

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KEYWORDS: robots; sex
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The underlying truth is the women interviewed hate competition.
1 posted on 12/21/2015 12:43:58 PM PST by C19fan
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To: Lazamataz; KC_Lion; TADSLOS

Here we go!


2 posted on 12/21/2015 12:46:26 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: C19fan

A lot of guys are sick and tired of having to negotiate with a jabberwalkie before having sex.


3 posted on 12/21/2015 12:48:50 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: C19fan

I’ve always said that the feminist movement is nothing more than legalized nagging.

Feminists would not know what to do without men because they would have nothing to hate except themselves. Maybe they should invent a p@ssy w!mped male robot they can rag on and everybody will be happy.


4 posted on 12/21/2015 12:52:10 PM PST by GilGil
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To: Norm Lenhart

And what happens when Roberta the Robot gets a glitch in her chip or a screw loose in her RAM?

“I hate you! Die!!” “I hate you! Die!!” “I hate you! DIE!!!!!”


5 posted on 12/21/2015 12:54:43 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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Some of these "companions" can engage in "conversation,"

A would think that these companies would understand that this is not merely a superfluous option, but that it makes the contraption less appealing. If they understand what to do (specifically including, but certainly not limited to, "Make me a sandwich" and "Get me a beer", that is wholly sufficient.

And, of course, the inevitable question arises: "Would Laz hit it?"

6 posted on 12/21/2015 12:55:16 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: C19fan

She is not looking forward to her life alone with six cats and box wine...


7 posted on 12/21/2015 12:58:10 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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And what happens when Roberta the Robot gets a glitch in her chip or a screw loose in her RAM? I hate you! Die!! I hate you! Die!! I hate you! DIE!!!!!

Easy. Just get a newer model "on the side"

Just don't let the first one find out.

8 posted on 12/21/2015 12:59:37 PM PST by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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The underlying truth is the women interviewed hate competition dehumanization.
9 posted on 12/21/2015 1:02:45 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Pray for the *%$#s. It's the only way to help them, or you, become a bit worthier as a human being.)
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So all those wealthy enough to afford these robots will have few or no offspring, while the poor will do it the old-fashioned way. Idiocracy catalyzed!


10 posted on 12/21/2015 1:03:24 PM PST by bkopto
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To: C19fan

Wait till prostitutes come under price/looks competition from robots.

Of course, long before that, robots will require licenses, and be taxed.

The taxes thus generated will be used to pay legions of Democrat voters to reproduce.


11 posted on 12/21/2015 1:03:46 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: elcid1970

Huh? I thought the purchaser of the female ‘companion’ robot, was the one with the RAM???


12 posted on 12/21/2015 1:04:26 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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So all those wealthy enough to afford these robots will have few or no offspring, while the poor will do it the old-fashioned way.

I suspect there'll be some sort of rental option...
13 posted on 12/21/2015 1:04:39 PM PST by chrisser (This space for rent.)
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To: C19fan

Don’t date robots!
https://vimeo.com/12915013


14 posted on 12/21/2015 1:04:48 PM PST by Mr. Rabbit
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The underlying truth is the women interviewed hate competition dehumanization.

Do you think men enjoy being treated like a walking credit card after the kids come?

15 posted on 12/21/2015 1:05:31 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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that most of us, yes, you read that right, will be having sex with robots by the year 2050.

By the year 2050 I'll be a hundred years old and it will be only a robot willing to have sex with me............I don't see a problem.

16 posted on 12/21/2015 1:08:37 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: elcid1970

Those cost extra. They are a niche market ;)


17 posted on 12/21/2015 1:08:47 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: C19fan

Those women opposed to sex robots should have their vibrators confiscated!


18 posted on 12/21/2015 1:12:52 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: Farmer Dean
men's sperm counts ....lower...

men's testosterone levels...lower..

men go on to college ..less and less.

men working at jobs...less and less..

men don't want to marry..

men don't want children...

men can't handle a living human being as a sex partner..

lets face the truth...men have devolved

..why are we surprised....

when God returns, he'll have a lot to say about the roles that men have abandoned..

it all started when they thought living for pleasure, ala the playboy philosophy, was all they lived for...

bring on the muzzies because frankly, I can't see todays American men fighting back or resisting...

too many wimps out there...

19 posted on 12/21/2015 1:14:20 PM PST by cherry
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72 Sex Robot Virgins - The Answer to the Muslim problem.


20 posted on 12/21/2015 1:27:22 PM PST by Calpublican (A.G. Lynch: The intent of this statement is to incite violence against radical Islam)
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