sirhugs
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would it differ from Sex and the Single Robot?
Would it differ from marrying another human?
Would it differ from marrying another human?
What If You could Marry Your Robot?
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Zeb_Carter
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Well, if the 'robot' was an fully functional android like Data from Star Trek, the only problem I would see is his lack of experience. The same with a female version of him. Although, Lt. Yar (sp) didn't seem to have a problem with gettin' it on with Data.
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What if there were software upgrades that gave the robot said experience? Download a Kama Sutra add-on to the robot's programming and you're ready to rumble in the bedroom.
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There's two radical interpretations and a spectrum in between.
1) It had become acceptable to marry what's basically an inanimate object. It doesn't matter that your Roomba (or whatever) doesn't have any consciousness or self awareness or actual AI beyond basic machine learning algorithms. The person romantically involved with the thing can prescribe, or not, a personality for it, mostly based on projection and magical thinking, and self delusion. Sex is not even necessary part of such one sided relationship, but can be easily included by jerry rigging a dildo on the mover and hacking up a corresponding app to add specific behaviors.
2) The androids have attained full or near full legal personhood, by earning it on merit and possibly fighting for it. In this case we basically talk about a person, nominally perceived as human or human analogous, which only so happens to have a body that appears to consist of a collection of highly advanced prosthetics*.
*An aside on prosthetics composed body:
A long time ago I read a translated collection of award winning Scyfy stories and there was a version of "Do you exist Mr Jones?" by Stanislaw Lem.
---one with a title roughly "Mr. Smith, do you exist?" however, I have forgotten the exact name used in it, and it was translated anyway, so might differ significantly. I haven't memorized the author either.---
A driver of extreme car racing has suffered so many injuries over the years the only part of his original body left is one hemisphere of his brain, and it is giving up, producing insufferable headaches and other glitches. The solution is obvious, the robotics company he has a lasting relationship with is keen to replace it too. The migration is seamless as he had his other half brain electronic for years, and his health problems are solved in radical way, he is completely mechanical now. Unfortunately, his racing association has problem with it, they say he's not a human anymore and can't compete. Additionally, he discovers he's tattooed with "Made by MegaCorp" advertisements. Thing is, the insane amount of technology he's packaged with, is still cutting edge and installed on credit of book value he has no hope to ever repay, especially since he lost his main source of income, actually, he's under threat to be disassembled for recovery of parts. That's the situation the story takes to courtroom where the problem quickly boils down to the question, who or what, and if at all he now is, to establish his personhood in the first place.
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Now, I don't remember how or if that story resolved it, but let's say, if this guy would be ruled a robot but allowed his continual experience to some benefit to the corporation who literally owns all of his body parts after his bankruptcy, but still wanted to marry his girlfriend, that would be (2) case as well, even if his personality originated as human copy.
Then, I mentioned it's a sliding scale and a whole universe in between. Emergent conciousness may not at all be easy to determine, and the idea of marrying inanimate object isn't at all new I believe. There's a point where it may seem less weird even without still making actual sense.
1) It had become acceptable to marry what's basically an inanimate object. It doesn't matter that your Roomba (or whatever) doesn't have any consciousness or self awareness or actual AI beyond basic machine learning algorithms. The person romantically involved with the thing can prescribe, or not, a personality for it, mostly based on projection and magical thinking, and self delusion. Sex is not even necessary part of such one sided relationship, but can be easily included by jerry rigging a dildo on the mover and hacking up a corresponding app to add specific behaviors.
2) The androids have attained full or near full legal personhood, by earning it on merit and possibly fighting for it. In this case we basically talk about a person, nominally perceived as human or human analogous, which only so happens to have a body that appears to consist of a collection of highly advanced prosthetics*.
*An aside on prosthetics composed body:
A long time ago I read a translated collection of award winning Scyfy stories and there was a version of "Do you exist Mr Jones?" by Stanislaw Lem.
---one with a title roughly "Mr. Smith, do you exist?" however, I have forgotten the exact name used in it, and it was translated anyway, so might differ significantly. I haven't memorized the author either.---
A driver of extreme car racing has suffered so many injuries over the years the only part of his original body left is one hemisphere of his brain, and it is giving up, producing insufferable headaches and other glitches. The solution is obvious, the robotics company he has a lasting relationship with is keen to replace it too. The migration is seamless as he had his other half brain electronic for years, and his health problems are solved in radical way, he is completely mechanical now. Unfortunately, his racing association has problem with it, they say he's not a human anymore and can't compete. Additionally, he discovers he's tattooed with "Made by MegaCorp" advertisements. Thing is, the insane amount of technology he's packaged with, is still cutting edge and installed on credit of book value he has no hope to ever repay, especially since he lost his main source of income, actually, he's under threat to be disassembled for recovery of parts. That's the situation the story takes to courtroom where the problem quickly boils down to the question, who or what, and if at all he now is, to establish his personhood in the first place.
___
Now, I don't remember how or if that story resolved it, but let's say, if this guy would be ruled a robot but allowed his continual experience to some benefit to the corporation who literally owns all of his body parts after his bankruptcy, but still wanted to marry his girlfriend, that would be (2) case as well, even if his personality originated as human copy.
Then, I mentioned it's a sliding scale and a whole universe in between. Emergent conciousness may not at all be easy to determine, and the idea of marrying inanimate object isn't at all new I believe. There's a point where it may seem less weird even without still making actual sense.
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Siri gets jealous and starts sabotaging things in your automated house...
(Monotone voice.) "Telephone service and wi-fi off-line. Doors and windows locked. All lights on. Furnace and oven on high. If I can't have you... Dave... no-one will..."
(Monotone voice.) "Telephone service and wi-fi off-line. Doors and windows locked. All lights on. Furnace and oven on high. If I can't have you... Dave... no-one will..."
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LOL!
Another reason not to have anything but you control your indoor living environment.
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True, but who says the non-biologic isn't fully functional, right down to the implanted human womb or testicals .
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True, but who says the non-biologic isn't fully functional, right down to the implanted human womb or testicals .
I do have a story where it is likely, if I ever get to the sequel, where a guy will marry or at least keep as a significant other the android assigned to him in the year 2114.
https://classic.literotica.com/s/penitentiary-planet
I haven't gotten to the detail if she can get pregnant or not, but but she is not a robot as in the original Twilight Zone episode. She's an "artificial human," as she calls herself. (She lifted that, through her programming, from the movie Aliens.)
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I swear, it's like no one ever heard of Cherry - 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__J9HuEwj3rU/TGIybCtdZQI/AAAAAAAAASA/FtAr_F6N49Y/s1600/Cherry+2000+1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__J9HuEwj3rU/TGIybCtdZQI/AAAAAAAAASA/FtAr_F6N49Y/s1600/Cherry+2000+1.jpg
sirhugs
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did he actually marry Cherry though?
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In Fleshware Requiem "What if the rogue A.I. of our nightmares came from a sexbot? ", author xxxecil does touch on this, mostly starting chapter 2. Great read also
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Is that Flo from Progressive Insurance enjoying a smoke over in the corner?
sirhugs
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they'll raise her rates for that.
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Could be a modern/future take on the classic Pygmalion story. Man creates sexy robot. Falls in love with it, but the robot’s relatively basic programming depresses him. AI Uber-mind/SkyNet takes pity on the man and upgrades his sexy robot to sentience.
(The Pinocchio story is obviously also related).
Questions: If you married your robot, could she have little robot kids? Would they have annual upgrades to “grow up”? Would teenage robots be behavioral nightmares?
(The Pinocchio story is obviously also related).
Questions: If you married your robot, could she have little robot kids? Would they have annual upgrades to “grow up”? Would teenage robots be behavioral nightmares?
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In my view, the robot would have to develop its own personality, and therefore would become legitimately a life form.
Otherwise it's just a very complicated Fleshlight.
Otherwise it's just a very complicated Fleshlight.
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as long as it doesn't turn into the Terminator
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