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Cure for love: Fall for a robot to fend off heartache
New Scientist ^
| 2-14-14
| Catherine de Lange
Posted on 02/23/2014 7:10:39 PM PST by ReformationFan
At least the bride was definitely going to show up. In November 2009, a Japanese man stood before a congregation to marry the woman he loved, Nene Anegasaki. In doing so, he became the first man to marry a computer game character Nene is one of three "virtual girlfriends" in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus.
The marriage might not be recognised by the state, but to the groom, who goes by his on-screen name Sal9000, the relationship is very real. In the months leading up to the wedding the couple went everywhere together, they chatted intimately, held hands and Sal fell in love. After the wedding, he took Nene on honeymoon, then home to meet his parents.
Sal says he is in love with the character rather the machine, and presumably he's not alone over 250,000 copies of Love Plus have been sold in Japan since it launched in 2009.
Spike Jonze's latest film Her takes the idea further, depicting a future in which phone operating systems are advanced enough to substitute a real romance. So just how likely are we to fall in love with a machine?
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bigbangtheory; japan; neneanegasaki; robot; siri; stepfordwives; virtualreality
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To: KC_Lion; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Sorry, but all my doctors...
demand--
I get lots of bed... rest!
Will report back... when I am medically cleared to remove the safety pin.
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02/24/2014 1:40:45 AM PST
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Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Bender2
God Bless and listen to the Sawbones, brother!
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02/24/2014 4:33:46 AM PST
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Howie66
(John Wayne McCornyn...he's just like US! Honest!)
To: Bender2
Whew! Thanks for the update. We were worried about you. Get your shiney ass back here ASAP!
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02/24/2014 6:29:40 AM PST
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shove_it
(long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
To: Bender2; NFHale; KC_Lion; big'ol_freeper; GOPsterinMA
The unit “Bender B. Rodriguez” appears to be operational!! Break out the Slurm!
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02/24/2014 6:36:51 AM PST
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Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: Bender2
The new season of “Dallaa” starts tonight...are you gonna JR Ewing it up and watch while wearing a 20 gallon Stetson hat?
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02/24/2014 7:14:01 AM PST
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GOPsterinMA
(You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
To: Bender2
"I'm afraid that one day I'll come home and find you screwing the toaster."
"You will just have to trust me."
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02/24/2014 12:12:58 PM PST
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Bloody Sam Roberts
("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
To: Darksheare
You know your toons, my FRiend.
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UCANSEE2
(I just messed up my tagline. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Secret Agent Man
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02/24/2014 9:23:14 PM PST
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UCANSEE2
(I just messed up my tagline. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Bender2
I haven't read your obit so i'm glad to see you're still with us. As a newspaper guy from long time back we'd read the obits to find out who we no longer needed to keep in touch with. As cold-blooded a racket as you can find. But that was a different time.
Billy Joe Shaver ~Corsicana Daily Sun ~
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Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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