Sex with Robots

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Sex with Robots: How Humanity Is Screwing Itself By Dave BrodyYou're shambling the avenue; Bluetooth stuck up your ear, thumbs-a-Twitter. Your GPS-enabled phone is piloting you to a meet-up with your pub posse. You pinch to zoom the map, but the boss' IM interrupts with a snarl about the afternoon meeting so now you're pondering a new spin on "the dog ate my homework."Meanwhile your calendar is pleading about orphan dry cleaning. And at this moment, that girl from last century pings: She's friend-ing you on Fbook, and "whatcha been up to and how come your profile says you're single" when she thought you'd hooked up semi-permanently with that photographer?Basically, you've become The Borg.And it's only 2009. Cheer up. It gets a whole lot deeper soon. Everyone will know literally everything about you. And resistance is worse than futile; it will be cleansed. Sometime this century — likely sooner than later — the trend lines of human vanity, self-indulgence, quest for personal perfection and general laziness will cross with those of computer processing power, machine dexterity, smart search, molecular manipulation and sensor acuity.The inevitable result: human-robot convergence, the end of us as we knew us. Say konnichiwa to your successor: Hubot Roboman.The good news: you get infinite orgasms out of the deal.Is this how Skynet will spawn the Terminators? Is it Ray Kurzweil's Singularity? Hans Moravec's Mind-Children? The solution to the Fermi-Hart Paradox? Yeah, that's right. And a whole bunch more. This is the quest for the algorithm of soul.Socially connectedWhen President Obama speaks of the Smart Grid, he means that we aspire to create an interactive network of power utilities that is cleverly managed through the flow of information about capacity, supply, demand and environmental impact. It's an essential undertaking, to be sure.But the truly Intelligent Grid is already up and you're using it now. It's the Telepresent Internet, where updated information on nearly everything is online everywhere all the time. And, in fact, the shifting usage patterns for power that constitute demand on the energy grid will probably bubble up directly from this Telepresent Internet.Telepresence means the ability to virtually be where you actually aren't. You've done it all your life, since that first time you got on the phone with grandma.Now that connectivity has exploded and slipped its noose of copper cable, it freely prowls the wireless world. So even as you read this, you are carrying on perhaps a dozen time-shifted interactions and conversations with others via e-mail; you're clicking links; you're searching names and terms. You're accessing the Wisdom Base of All Humanity without moving much more than your fingers.To prosper in this culture of immersive, always-on telepresence, you — or your portable bandolier of technology — have got to be really good at selectively sucking and synthesizing a staggering amount of information. Thus you upgrade your rig every couple of years. You're already paying per month to access that growing cloud of stuff you care about. And you've become a slave to charging batteries and synchronizing platforms. You're already adorned in wearable devices. Next step for you: implanted ones. Our very human need to "always be on top of things" powerfully pushes us in the direction of robotic enhancement. It's precisely what drove your grandparents to buy that first TV.This would be a good time to watch a video about all this. Then let's talk about sex ... The video is half way down the page within the article. Our robots: ourselvesWe poke fun at Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak on his Segway. But we forget that inventor Dean Kamen's team was originally on a quest to bring eye-level mobility and independent living to people who do not have use of their legs. Thus, Segway's DNA came from the successful IBOT. Indeed, years before Segway, Kamen's first invention, the AutoSyringe, robotically delivered a metered dose of insulin or other therapeutic medications into a patient's IV drip. As technologies gain finesse they enter the realm of biology. The more helpful they become, the more insidious they must grow to be.But whether a personal robotic innovation is considered an invasion, or an enhancement, is in the mind's eye of the user.Sex with robotsYes. Of course we will. Some of us do now. We call them vibrators.One step up is the implanted spinal cord stimulator: It's been reported since 2004 that a device originally designed for chronic pain control and urinary issues can stimulate orgasm in women — even individuals who thought they'd lost the ability to have them. The appliance is no bigger than a pacemaker, can be wired into a woman's lower back in a physician's office under local anesthetic, is FDA approved (for "bladder problems"), and can be run by remote control. Ask your doctor.Will you be prepared when she asks you to trigger this device over the Internet in a loving act of telepresent titillation? What happens when this "Orgasmatron" is triggered by intelligent software, in tandem with some fairly straightforward force-feedback actuators, and both are driven by, similarly simple, biometric sensors under some rather rudimentary fuzzy logic?Answer: the romantic robotic partner.It's not much further along the technology curve to build this package into interactive machinery with humanoid appearance and, well, "feel." Or non-humanoid, if she's feeling adventurous.The algorithm of soulWhat will be your role? Of what use are you? Is there something qualitatively different about our human capacity to be soulful? Something about it we can't pass on to the robots?The philosophers; answer: "of course!" But the engineers tend to think otherwise. As these systems learn more about us, we need not burn up so much creativity on fantasizing sexual love — or on conjuring romantic love — because more and more of our sensory perception field will become "filled-up" with inputs from the robot. Will this simulated sex get so good as to convince us that it's the real thing? How will we know if it isn't?At that point, the bedrock notion of sexually bonding with your life-partner goes totally out the hatch. It may linger as vestigial dogma for a generation or two, but it will no longer have any survival value. The good news is that you can say so-long to the worship of a large class of largely useless celebrities: Stardom coupled to sexual desirability — or the inferred aptitude of that star as a great lover, no matter the severity of their psychoses — will cease to work.Now let's say you have chosen to become enhanced by implant of one or more of these devices — either to give or receive pleasure. You are now a sexy cyborg. Is this ethically any different from the erection pill or the arousal cream you use now? How would you counsel your children? Will you enhance them at some age you consider appropriate?Fortunately for this author, I'll be able to beg off gracefully from these issues by citing old age. But I may not get away with it.The too-easy life?Why don't we see intelligent extraterrestrials, when the galaxy should be chock full of them? Hubot Roboman tells us the answer: Every technological civilization gets to this point. If you have virtually limitless entertainment everywhere you are, why would you ever go anywhere at all? Any parent whose child plays a game involving a screen and a microprocessor knows this devil all too well. So the number of intelligent species who can kick their addiction to The Too-Easy Life is obviously vanishingly small.Or, perhaps, the number is very large but they wish each new emerging one (us) to pass the test on their own before they will reveal their presence. If so, then they are already here: the robotic "mind-children" of formerly biological beings. They likely sit just out of site — as a telepresent network of individually very small kernels of machine intelligence.So the root question becomes: Will we be able to impart ambition and curiosity into Hubot Roboman? You know, that restless "mojo" that propelled waves of us out of northern Africa and into the unknown. If Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, Bill Joy and others are correct that machine intelligence is inevitable with sufficient computational power, we stand at the edge of a quest as amazing as our ancestors' emergence from the water.But if there's something missing in the translation, then we have a very narrow time window — a generation or two at most — in which to do brave things: Get off the planet; figure out dark energy, write really good music ... So much on the to-do list for the future is in deep jeopardy if we can't locate the algorithm of soul. _________________________________________________________________It's about time technology comes up with something useful.

If I could plug an electro-pussy into a usb slot and watch a porno while the puter jerked me off and milked my wang, well I sure as fuck would not be here on this site right now would I.

haha thats to funny,and yet a good point...

I already have sex with an electronic machine;)

I assume you mean a battery operated boyfriend, and not just finger fucking yourself to a frothy foam while thinking of Brent Spinner

I wish they soon create humanoid robots for pleasure I would like to own one

Lt. Tasha Yar: What I want now is gentleness, and joy, and love... from you, Data; you are fully functional, aren't you? Lt. Cmdr. Data: Of course, but... Lt. Tasha Yar: How fully? Lt. Cmdr. Data: In every way of course. I am programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring. Lt. Tasha Yar: Oh, you jewel! That's exactly what I hoped.

I've thought about this a bit over the years.Imagine the benifit to society of atomiton sex slaves. No law, no religion, no punishment has ever curtailed the actions of sexual preditors or deviants. If we go with the basic truth that you cannot stop a river but you can divert it, we can let potential sexual criminals do the deed with robots and keep them away from the general public.Immagine how marriages could be saved when one partner has a sexual fantacy that can't be filled by the other. Instead of cheating, he or she can work it out with a robot... "hey hon, I've always had this priest/alterboy fantacy so I'll just be out in the garage. Call me when supper is ready. love you!"Sure, some people will fall in love with their robots but that will be a very small percentage. It won't be any different than the number of people that fall in love with porn stars, celebrities or "real dolls". Basically, there has yet to be a non-reproductive sexual activity that has reversed the overpopulation of this planet.I say GIVE US SEXBOTS!

Originally Posted By: unsupervisedIf we go with the basic truth that you cannot stop a river but you can divert it, we can let potential sexual criminals do the deed with robots and keep them away from the general public.It will help the society in many ways. Quote:Imagine how marriages could be saved when one partner has a sexual fantasy that can't be filled by the other. so true.......thats why I want a sexbot. I dont get much of a high from normal activity. Quote:Sure, some people will fall in love with their robots but that will be a very small percentage. I would be foolish enough to fall in love with a robot cos it wont disappoint me as much as my ex bf did and wont annoy me as much either........LOL

"how marriages could be saved when one partner has a sexual fantacy that can't be filled by the other. Instead of cheating, he or she can work it out with a robot... 'hey hon, I've always had this priest/alterboy fantacy so I'll just be out in the garage. Call me when supper is ready. love you!'"It wouldn't work half the dumb asses in this country would still be getting jealous and saying, "Why do you have to go out and fuck that 18 year old replicon. Am I not good enough for you? You don't find me attractive anymore? Well fuck you I want a divorce!"

You and Mr. U are missing something here. Marriages are not based on sex...that's the opinion of the unimaginative; or at least the uninformed. If marriage was based on sex, very few marriages, or relationships for that matter, would last. Sex is a poor basis for holding any relationship together.So, sex robots would make little difference there. It would, however, eliminate from the gene pool all those clowns who think about sex all day long past their youth, and on into adulthood. So, literally...let them knock themselves out!

Who the hell said a marriage is based on sex?

It can't be denied that sex does play a pretty big fucking part in any intimate partnership. For some fuckin' reason I don't particularly understand, but respect all the same, what ya do with Willy the one eye wonder worm does have an impact on the relationship.

As for being immature for thinking about sex... horse shit. I don't care what anybody thinks of me thinking about sex is pleasurable and I enjoy it and I ain't stoppin'. Why the fuck should I, so I can think about my 401K or spend countless hours bitching about the government and how their doing everything wrong and if they would just listen to me this country would be a utopia. Thanks but no, I think I'll remain "immature" and spend my fuckin' time thinkin' about fuckin'.

Hmmm...you must be one of those fuckers (to borrow your own words) who enjoys taking offense where none is intended. Sure, sex is an important part of an intimate relationship...but if that's ALL one is focussed on (which is what I actually said), then the relationship won't survive. You go ahead and feel free to put my words on this to the test. Good luck.

Once folks start sleeping with robots, it becomes too easy for them...many won't ever go back to sleeping with real people again. Too much trouble, in their minds. So unless there's something else holding folks together, other than sex, there won't BE any couples anymore! At least not natural ones. Some of us are smart enough to see the dangers ahead of time and simply won't go there. Hence, my comment concerning the gene pool.

I don't have the time or energy to respond the content right now, I will later.Fuck, I'm not offended. It takes more shit than that to offend me. I'm was, and am, just being my normal dickish self. Take no notice.

I hope you had to look that up and were not able to quote it from memory.

Originally Posted By: thorOnce folks start sleeping with robots, it becomes too easy for them...many won't ever go back to sleeping with real people again. Too much trouble, in their minds. Thats why I want a robot instead of a real guy. I dont want my little heart to break again........I am an emotional fool to put it right I cant tolerate ups and downs of relationships. I am not of the jealous type, but being cheated hurts If only the robot can talk to me, keep me company, help me with my work load, go shopping with me, make me a nice dinner, etc......if it could act and be my all time buddy.......I wouldnt feel as lonely as I do right now. I have always longed for a friend who can tolerate me and not hurt me in any way.

Thats the same as saying that masturbation leads to a man to hand (or woman to plastic dick with batteries) relationships and that negates teh need for marriage and real sex. My marriage is based aot on sex, if I didnt get any, I woudlnt be here. Its not the onyl factor in me being married to her, but do not pretend that sex is not a major issue in a relationship.I spend alot of time each week jerking my pud and spraying knuckle babies, but I would much rather be in her. Sex is alto of a marriage, but not all of it. To say that fucking a robot would lead to the downfall of humanity because now noone needs each other is absurd and if it were true, the girls have had subs for a cock since the first candle was made, they still put up with us.

Originally Posted By: SayaIf only the robot can talk to me, keep me company, help me with my work load, go shopping with me, make me a nice dinner, etc......if it could act and be my all time buddy.......I wouldnt feel as lonely as I do right now. I have always longed for a friend who can tolerate me and not hurt me in any way. If you can be the person you describe, you will find this person. Sometimes it does get painful, though...but so is being lonely.

Originally Posted By: Grvtykllr

To say that fucking a robot would lead to the downfall of humanity because now noone needs each other is absurd and if it were true, the girls have had subs for a cock since the first candle was made, they still put up with us.

With most girls, it's as an emotional thing as it is a physical thing. That's why they put up with us. For the record, I never said sex wasn't an important part of the relationship...but if it's the ONLY part your worried about taking care of, she'll be gone. See Saya's post above for confirmation, if you have your doubts.

The immediate danger is with the guys...not the girls. But eventually, as the robots became more sophisticated, a lot of the girls would be shnookered into it too. Not all of us...but certainly a lot of us. Let's hope we don't have to find out the hard way.

Quote:So, sex robots would make little difference there. It would, however, eliminate from the gene pool all those clowns who think about sex all day long past their youth, and on into adulthood. So, literally...let them knock themselves out! well, I for one think about sex all the time... and then I do it as far as a change the gene pool, maybe only the poor and disenfrachized fuckers who can't afford a robot will be left