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Science is the devil.
This might lower women's attitude toward science.
EVERYONE becomes a Luddite when his or her job is eliminated.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sex-robot...232500174.html
Last edited by Trey Strain; 01-12-2018 at 02:59 AM.
Did you read the comments? They're funny as hell. Quite a few men are happy about this development. I'm not saying I am, but I'm sure that the first company that brings these things to the market will become extremely wealthy -- for the same reason that prostitution has always been a big business, despite the efforts of governments everywhere to stamp it out.
These things really will replace women in the lives of more than a few men. You can call that whatever you want to, or call anyone who says it a bad person, but it's a fact.
Last edited by Trey Strain; 01-12-2018 at 07:07 AM.
What we need from technology are medicine, electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating and air, refrigeration, the internet, phones, forensics, construction, rapid transit and hauling, infrastructure, and maybe a few other things.
What was don't need is a surveillance state. But that's what we're getting, inch by inch.
Last edited by Trey Strain; 01-12-2018 at 07:39 AM.
If these things are replacing women in their lives then they didn't have any real women in them to begin with, but that's not my point. What you said was that women would hate this because it was taking their jobs, which isn't so as there are many employed women out there and only a few people globally made the choice to pick 'Have Sex' as their job (Not getting into sex slavery here). This will certainly be a profitable enterprise that I don't approve of, but I'd be fine with someone having a Scooby Doo sex bot as long as it stayed in their bedroom. I have a problem with people who seem to think that sexing men is a woman's job though.
No, I wasn't talking about sex robots taking women's jobs in the workforce. I meant they'll take jobs from women in more than a few bedrooms. You're welcome to believe that won't happen, but I bet it will. There are a lot of men out there who have been financially wiped out by divorces. I don't plan to buy one, but think about what will those robots be like in 20 years. The price will keep falling too.
Space exploration was what I did for a living the past 18 years, so I can't complain. Google my handle and that was the last project I worked on.
When does automation occur? It happens when the costs of machines doing something drops lower than the costs of humans doing it.
Many costs are incurred in a romantic relationship, not all of them financial. Some non-financial costs include stress, loss of autonomy, the investment of one's time, dealing with exes and baby daddies, etc. Some men will decide that the costs of romantic relationships are no longer worth paying.
Eventually the social stigma will begin to drop away, and you'll see this depicted on sitcoms and the like. It's coming. The only question is, how popular will it become?