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The Fembot's Not For Sex... Yet
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So yes, Aiko is anatomically correct, and Mr. Trung most likely has put that to good use.
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Heh.
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I think this is a really interesting thing to say. Like, it kind of suggests that you should feel bad about having a robot slave. But aren't you supposed to feel bad about things because they're unethical? I mean, slavery is implicitly unethical; so if having a robot isn't unethical then why is it slavery?
zomg. whoah.
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And, in the second place, those scenarios and the dilemmas they explore are widely, widely varied.
I mean, consider someone like Asimov: Asimov wasn't just writing about robots--he was writing about artificial intelligence. The dilemma was: at what point of sophistication does consciousness constitute personhood?
Such a question simply doesn't apply here, as Aiko, and even her increasingly sophisticated successors, do not have anything that can accurately be called consciousness--only a series of increasingly complex rote behaviors that can be said to resemble consciousness.
In that case, we can't rightly say that there is an ethical dilemma regarding Aiko's slavery (sexual or otherwise), only that because Aiko's actions resemble consciousness, the situation resembles an ethical dilemma.
It's more than a little disingenuous, I think, to use "robots" to refer to all kinds of artificial entities. The definition of "robot"--nowadays, anyway--implicitly does not include consciousness or selfhood.
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[www.theonion.com]
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How is it any of my business?
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Also: what if people are secretly building the future army of sexbot overlords that will enslave humanity?
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aah this is even creepier!
And she's handicapped... which means she's angry and probably resents humans.
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Some things are better left to the imagination.
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And the Hitachi Magic Wand is a massager.
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The only danger that remains, of course is electric gonorrhea--the noisy killer.
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FOREIGN CONTAMINANT!
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Did I miss a memo?
Sorry, all this brings to mind is some pervert getting turned on by that and jerking off into her face.
I know....I have little faith in the male sex. Well, the male sex who would buy a Fembot.
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I think I just threw up a little.
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The point is he didn't need to make it say anything, by having it react sexualizes it instantly.
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I know part of it is that I'm humanizing an inanimate object. But that object is a reflection of the man who created it, and his desires... And I'm calling into question just what desires he's fulfilling.
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@D'Amicos one good year: Yeah, it's all a bit icky in a "what does the future hold" sort of way, also.
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In any case, I didn't mention fantasies at all, originally.