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A sex doll was so heavily molested by eager men it broke before anyone could actually use it. Or use it privately, anyway.
We're not entirely sure what happened to 'Samantha'. But its owner complained that the £3,000 robot was left "heavily soiled" after being exhibited at a tech fair.
Developer Sergi Santos, from Barcelona, Spain, says visitors to the Arts Electronica Festival in Linz treated the 'intelligent' sex doll "like barbarians", and added that two fingers were broken in the melee.
"The people mounted Samantha's breasts, her legs and arms," Sergi said. "Two fingers were broken. She was heavily soiled."
Sergi added that the robot had to be sent back in a parcel to Barcelona for repairs and cleaning after being left so filthy and broken by the never-ending male attention.
But said: "Samantha can endure a lot, she will pull through."
Not sure I could get a 3,000 pound robot up to my 3rd floor walk-up...
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday September 29 2017, @02:21AM (8 children)
I don't disagree, however people are weird, they have always been weird and will always continue to be weird.
Everyone (but hopefully not in this exact manner although it can for sure be much worse).
The only difference is about what. Perhaps? And maybe (hopefully) some choices are better than others but it might all be purely random rather than a choice and the outcomes for nearly identical input seem wildly divergent as well.
At least that's my current conclusion. Just 1 among about 8 billion thoughts or whatnot currently flowing through everyone alive right now.
And deciding how someone is weird is of course subjective as well. Sometimes one has to know someone for a long time to realize in what way they're weird, like perhaps how their judgment or world-view seems impaired or erroneous or whether (or how) they're sexual freaks and whatnot.
The older I get the more I'm amazed that there's anyone at all that stick together, procreate, and still stick together, or how there's any kind of rudimentary society to speak of at all, or how we ever got to the point of having technology and science, or how some decisions in history actually seem to have at least a tinge of rationality to them. Hmm on second thought forget that last one :D
It's a mad world (of lies if you ask me) and every time someone tries to fix it it gets a little worse, or so it appears.
I'm pretty sure this is why so many older people tune out, it takes a lot of stubbornness not to, maybe far too much effort and stamina and energy to be of any worth even for those who try.
And all that makes it incredibly impressive that most people still try to get along and do what they think is right (despite everyone pretty much disagreeing on what that would be precisely, at least if they think a lot about it) and don't give up.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday September 29 2017, @09:03AM (7 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday September 29 2017, @11:42AM
Strange I wonder where the uncanny valley is with dildos... :|
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 29 2017, @02:02PM (4 children)
But such cultural things are different from the current version of the uncanny valley aspect you started on, which is an individual perception. At the moment, the perception that's most significant is visual, and that of facial features, of musculature and movement, other aspects are still miles away from the uncanny valley. However, in coming decades, the perception of intelligence or sentience will indeed approach its own uncanny valley, and we'll start sympathising and empathising with objects lacking pathos. We live in interesting times. I have no idea how that will end up. I have a nasty feeling that robot rights will grow, and start to diminish human rights, but I'm a notorious pessimist.
Hmmm, probably time to drop Cheesoid... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWP52PcdpAw
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @03:25PM (3 children)
You're not kidding. I remember learning about a culture in a college anthropology course, think it was this one [wikipedia.org], where they boys are required to fellate men upon demand because they need to fill up with male essence to become men. The men, in turn, undertake ritual blood letting after having sex with women to rid themselves of the impure female essence, blood.
Next to that kind of thing a sex robot seems rather tame.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:32PM
Yes, and I'm glad they stopped the cannibalism.
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday September 29 2017, @10:26PM
(I avoided the "it must suck to be a boy in that tribe" joke, but that's certainly not because it was tasteless.)
Briefly, I thought you might be trolling Ari with the ancient grooming that used to take place, until I hovered over your link.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday September 30 2017, @06:19AM
I think it was the young boys fellating (spelling checker don't like that) the older boys. Once they grew up, they married a woman and probably demanded oral sex but went heterosexual. Lots of cultures where the older women taught the young men. It's actually amazing how much of this stuff is cultural and even the worst stuff like kids fellating is normal somewhere and being normal isn't traumatic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @01:57AM
Ask Ethanol-Fueled where his Tommy Gunn penis extender is in the uncanny valley.