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The folks over at CNBC have dug up some experts to explore the question should you have sex with robots:
Should we be having sex with robots?
It's a question that has sparked fierce debate among moralists and the robotics industry. And it turns out, they're all split on what role machines should play in future relationships.
During a discussion at the Web Summit technology conference in Dublin on Wednesday, experts warned about the dangers of getting intimate with robots.
"It's something we should be very concerned about...because if people feel they can have an intimate relationship with a machine, that is saying something serious about how we're experiencing empathy with each other," Kathleen Richardson, senior research fellow in the ethics of robotics at the U.K.'s De Montfort University, said during the panel.
The academic, who launched the "campaign against sex robots" earlier this year, added that "we are losing our sense of humanity."
How, exactly, do you get to be an expert on banging robots? Just saying...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @08:08PM
What does marriage have to do with anything? I can be in a lifelong relationship with someone without ever getting married. Marriage is some dumb social ritual with magical thinking and undeserved legal benefits attached to it; nothing more. It has little to do with love.
Until now, all the porn and sex toys available still cannot compare to the real thing
The real thing is disgusting because real people are ugly, both physically and mentally. Therefore, pornography featuring real people has the same problem, so it is also worthless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 08 2015, @12:00AM
The real thing is disgusting because real people are ugly, both physically and mentally. Therefore, pornography featuring real people has the same problem, so it is also worthless.
I was surprised the first few times I saw it . . . but on porn shoots that have an extra 15 minutes before the main show, typically have the girl receiving professionally applied makeup to their face. Therefore, pornography featuring real people doesn't always have the same problem, because some directors are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on makeup and clothing per shoot, to make even a disgusting bitch, look pretty for an hour.