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Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen
MSNBC ^
| 10/12/2007
| Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 10/13/2007 5:31:19 PM PDT by Renfield
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......
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: culture; robots
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:31:21 PM PDT
by
Renfield
To: Renfield
And I thought I was warped.
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:34:02 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Fred in '08. Deal with it.)
To: Renfield
Oh, man. If they make a Keanu robot, I’ll be on that bandwagon so hard the wheels will buckle.
To: Renfield
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 That's if you want your robots to look like bandwagons...
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:35:37 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(And there's nothing wrong with that)
To: Renfield
“No bestiality Senator Craig!”
To: Renfield
Mmmm...sexy.
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:37:25 PM PDT
by
dinodino
To: Renfield
Err...make that Liberals could marry robots...
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:40:07 PM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Renfield
Now there’s the topic for Gore’s next book. He’ll be cheering that in 23 years robots will have wiped out the nasty human race and restored the climate.
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:40:38 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: Renfield
Brings new meaning to stuning the beebers... bizarro.
9
posted on
10/13/2007 5:42:48 PM PDT
by
pianomikey
(Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
To: dinodino
I’d totally hit that. RILF, BABY!!!
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:43:25 PM PDT
by
pianomikey
(Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
To: Renfield
Humans could marry robots within the century. "Within the century"? Some of us already did that in the last century!
Just kidding!
To: Renfield
And now...
THE ENERGIZER PLAYBOY BUNNY
To: Renfield
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:50:08 PM PDT
by
Mojave
To: Renfield
To: dinodino
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:52:58 PM PDT
by
Mojave
To: Mojave
Why even have the humans anymore?
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:54:25 PM PDT
by
pianomikey
(Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
To: pianomikey
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posted on
10/13/2007 5:56:45 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(I don't want to find "common ground" with a bunch of damn leftists.)
To: Renfield
Been there, done that with my ex.
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posted on
10/13/2007 6:13:49 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: Mojave
My morning shave’s always like that anyway!
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posted on
10/13/2007 6:14:29 PM PDT
by
pianomikey
(Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
To: mtbopfuyn
....”robots will have wiped out the nasty human race and restored the climate.”
are you sure you did not mean “climax”?
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posted on
10/13/2007 6:45:13 PM PDT
by
NemoDog
(and Nero fiddled...)
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