• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      You talking “rich” as in “doing pretty well, financially” or “rich” as in “truely wealthy”? Because at some point, I’d imagine that the rich person would just hire a “housekeeper”.

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        Billionaire Robert Kraft was caught at a low-end “massage parlor” in Florida. It seemed like a slam-dunk case but his lawyers were able to argue that the warrant allowing detectives to place hidden cameras in the rooms didn’t explicitly include recording the videos so the recordings couldn’t be used in court as evidence. Without the recordings of him asking for and receiving sexual services from a potentially trafficked person the prosecutors weren’t able to make a case and he remains a free man, not guilty in the eyes of the law even though what he did became widely known. Still blows my mind that he had the financial resources for any variety of overtly-transactional or less-overtly-transactional-and-perfectly-legal-in-most-jurisdictions relationships with willing participants, yet he chose the really cheap and illegal route with someone who was likely coerced into the action by a third party. Was that part of the appeal?

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          Did you reply to the wrong comment? I only implied that rich people would probably hire a prostitute of some form, rather than buy a sex toy. What does that have to do with the specific type of sex workers that Robert Kraft chose to visit?

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    Would it really be a bad thing? May the incels will get laid and move on. Maybe the guy who gets rejected will go home and fuck his bot instead of stalking the girl who rejected him. And maybe girls won’t have to take it in the ass even though they don’t really want to, but feel like they have to. They can say, just fuck the bot in the ass. Marriage rates will probably decline, and so will total divorces after a while. Which means less kids raised in split or single households. Plenty of good “could” cum from this.

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      Yeah but can a sex bot piss in my mouth while sucking my dick while I yell “but mommy I don’t like apple juice”?

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      Still won’t address emotional needs, whether those needs be healthy or unhealthy. If a robot could actually satisfy, why doesn’t jacking off work as well as actually getting laid? Same difference with a bot.

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      Would it really be a bad thing?

      I’ve heard far too many stories about how ChatGPT inflames the narcissistic tendencies of the people who use it and turns them into unbearable assholes. I can’t imagine how adding a pocketpussy or vibrator to the device will improve things.

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      All those things could be more readily solved by just legalizing and de-stigmatizing sex work. AI sex bots actively harm that industry by taking work away from humans, just like how a hypothetical AI acting bot would harm the acting industry.

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        I mean your right, but if I were to guess which is more likely, sex bots takes the win.

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        The work could be done cheaper by robots, presumably. And sure, I’m all for legalized sex work. But if a machine can do it better, faster, and cheaper - why not? Fleshlights exist - are you opposed to those because they take work from sex workers? Ludditism always fails - if human sex workers are still around after we have fully functioning sex bots, it is because they can provide something the bots can’t. And I think this will be the case - at the end of the day, we know on a deep level that there is a difference between fucking a bot and fucking a real human.

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            Morally? I don’t think there is a moral component here. It’s like saying earthquakes are morally wrong. Technological innovation happens when its time comes, and trying to stop it is akin to trying to stop an earthquake. Sure, you can choose not to use the tech if you don’t want to, but others will. You can form comminities which agree not to use the tech (like the Amish), but those outsude your communities will use the tech. You might even get your government to ban the tech - but then you end up with the war on drugs, or south america style inflation, or North Korean levels of policing.

            If you want to wax poetic about the wonderful work of hand-weaving textiles, be my guest. But I will very happyly wear a machine-woven shirt for a fraction of the cost so that I can spend my money on something else that I value more.

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              No, not morally. What? The Luddites have not always been wrong about the adoption of a particular technology ultimately being a net negative on society/individuals/humanity. Citing their “failure” as a reason to blindly champion any use of technology is kind of weird.

              Luddites “fail” to hold back technology insofar as many technologies are indeed adopted, but that doesn’t mean their message of temperance has never had any effect on how technology is adopted, or that all technologies have improved life on Earth. And of course not all technology has taken off. Yes, it’s hard to stop a moving train once an idea is getting popular, but we all get to choose whether to climb aboard. I wonder why it seems to ruffle your feathers to hear from people who don’t.

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          Just because we can automate something, doesn’t mean we should. At least not until we live in a moneyless society.

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            You’re really setting yourself up for disappointment here. You’ve created a dichotomy - either we should avoid automating things which can be automated (which isn’t going to happen - consumers like low prices and shareholders like higher profits), or we should transition to a moneyless society (which is also not going to happen, money is useful and everyone likes it).

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      May the incels will get laid and move on. Maybe the guy who gets rejected will go home and fuck his bot instead of stalking the girl who rejected him.

      Doubtful - these actions are driven by emotions, not the need to get off. If it were the latter, they could just jerk off at home today and they wouldnt do these things.

      They can say, just fuck the bot in the ass.

      They can currently just say “no”… I’m not sure why we need sex bots to save us from being bad at communicating.

      Marriage rates will probably decline, and so will total divorces after a while

      Again, doubt. If you are getting married for the sake of having sex, then you are probably in some kind of restrictive religion. And these religions will probably tell you that fucking a bot is an abomination. If you aren’t, then you’ll marry for the same reasons people marry today, and marriage and divorce will stay at about the same rate.

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        You don’t seem to understand the role sexual desire plays in the decisions people make. And I am going to assume you aren’t male. Cause jerking off is simply not the same as sex.

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          I’m confused why you think that, and don’t think you understand the point I was making. Would you please elaborate?

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            For starters, jerking off and having sex are not equal. Next you think straight up saying no to a sexual desire is the same as redirection. Last, you don’t think the desire to get laid is a driver for guys dating girls which eventually leads to marrying them. There are exceptions, but sexual desire is the first thing to drive most men to date. They my find other value later, but that won’t matter if they don’t start.

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              For starters, jerking off and having sex are not equal.

              I agree. My point is that having sex with a robot is more akin to jerking off than having sex with a human. Like I said, fleshlights exist. Sex dolls exist. A sex robot would simply be another iteration.

              Next you think straight up saying no to a sexual desire is the same as redirection.

              I think people should just say no to things they don’t want to do.

              Last, you don’t think the desire to get laid is a driver for guys dating girls which eventually leads to marrying them.

              Again, I think putting your dick in a robot is more akin to jerking off. Hence the rate of marriage and divorce not changing. People will continue getting married for dumb reasons. They will just be the same dumb reasons as before.

              Also, btw, I’m a heterosexual man with a high sex drive.

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                Your using what sex with s robot would be right now. The post is talking about in ten years. Ten years from now it will be drastically different than a fleshlight or current sex dolls. I would expect it would be able to move on it’s own, probably enough to get into different positions. It will also probably be able to respond to commands/requests and maybe even physical movements of the user. And of course, AI can already pretend to be a real person with “some” success. Narrowing that scope from conversation to just sex should enable it to perform even better verbally.

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                  Again, these improved features might make it a more enjoyable experience - but it still won’t be sex. The person who owns the robot will know it. It won’t scratch the emotional itch that is wanting to have sex - at least not until the AI gains sentience, and has the right and ability to turn you down and/or tell you you just aren’t that great in the sack.

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        Why do people do this, just pull apart someone’s comment, dismiss and disregard everything they say. No questions. Just, bam bam bam, you’re wrong on all counts, because my opinion thinks you are wrong and my opinion is somehow more valid than yours. Do you talk to people like this irl. Wtf.

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          Do you talk to people like this irl.

          Do you not? Someone says something that sounds likely false. So I say “I don’t think that is true”. And then we can discuss whether or not it is likely true.

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    Bold of you to assume that, of the 8 billion people on earth right now, not a single one has achieved orgasm within the confines of a robotic entity.

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          *shaped like a cold scifi robot with a masculine resembling build

          It looks so incapable of emotion why even bother giving it a head, a cushion will do.

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            I wish I were. It’s more that women are sexually objectified and that’s why men develop things like sex robots and the like. If men could replace women with something like a fully functional Android, we would. Women are content with a dildo.

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                I wish. Then my observations could be corrected with logic and reason instead of themselves being logical and reasonable.

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                  You’re talking like a vulcan 🤔 Or a robot 😲

                  Wait, are you one of these sexbots from the future trying to steal our pretty women !!!

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    Or we could ya know…connect with people. Promote more social interaction spaces and opportunities so people are less siloed and isolated in their own city/town/neighborhoods/houses.

    People say “Oh AI, Oh Incels, Oh women are afraid” yes, but people get better at interacting socially by spending more time interacting socially. A “yes man” chat instance doesn’t help anyone learn or grow. And it goes for sex too, you’re not gonna get better if every “person” you’ve been with says you were the best ever and they came 30 times.

    AI companies have a vested interest in keeping people alone because it lets them keep using their product. Rebuilding community and connection is the thing that helps people grow.

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      The post was “in 10 years we’re going to” but the post date is 2015, is the joke

      Our sex robots do not look like that, they are the bare minimum functionality of put it in or stick it in

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    Well we already have sex machines, I don’t know how different a robot would be