Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 48309
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2007/10/14-17 [Recreation/Dating] UID:48309 Activity:kinda low
10/13   I'm not getting laid. How about you guys? Married guys and guys
        with gf's need not respond.               -not getting laid #3
        \_ I'm married and I'm not getting laid either.
           \_ Why not? Curious minds would like to know. How many years
              have you been married? Kids?
        \_ Doing just fine. -!tom
        \_ So, if you don't have a gf and don't have a wife, how exactly
           are you supposed to get laid?  Whores and one-night-stands?
           Fuck-buddies?
           Fuck-buddies?  Sheep?  Realdolls?
           \_ Ever heard of escorts?    -op
                \_ I explicitly called out "whores".
        \_ Dating often leads to sex, surprisingly enough.
        \_ There is hope for you after all:
           http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301736,00.html
           \_ Sweet, I love psuedo-hysterical right-wing propaganda
              masquerading as a "whimsical science news article."
              \_ There was nothing political in this article.  You've fallen
                 off the edge.
        \_ Ask a girl out.  Did she laugh and turn away disgusted?  Have you
           showered, washed your hair and brushed your teeth in the last month?
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us AP The 'Actroid,' a robot designed to look like a Japanese actress at a trade fair in Taiwan in 2006. "My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience. Levy recently completed his PhD work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it. Pygmalion to Roomba The idea of romance between humanity and our artistic and/or mechanical creations dates back to ancient times, with the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion falling in love with the ivory statue he made named Galatea, to which the goddess Venus eventually granted life. Next Wave of Consumer Robots Debuts at New York Expo This notion persists in modern times. Not only has science fiction explored this idea, but 40 years ago, scientists noticed that students at times became unusually attracted to ELIZA, a computer program designed to ask questions and mimic a psychotherapist. "There's a trend of robots becoming more human-like in appearance and coming more in contact with humans," Levy said. "At first robots were used impersonally, in factories where they helped build automobiles, for instance. Then they were used in offices to deliver mail, or to show visitors around museums, or in homes as vacuum cleaners, such as with the Roomba. Now you have robot toys, like Sony's Aibo robot dog, or Tickle Me Elmos, or digital pets like Tamagotchis." In his thesis, "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners," Levy conjectures that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them. Sex in 5 years Levy argues that psychologists have identified roughly a dozen basic reasons why people fall in love, "and almost all of them could apply to human-robot relationships. For instance, one thing that prompts people to fall in love are similarities in personality and knowledge, and all of this is programmable. Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them, and that's programmable too." In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network, predicted that people will be having sex with robots within five years, and Levy thinks that's quite likely. There are companies that already sell realistic sex dolls, "and it's just a matter of adding some electronics to them to add some vibration," he said, or endowing the robots with a few audio responses. "That's fairly primitive in terms of robotics, but the technology is already there." As software becomes more advanced and the relationship between humans and robots becomes more personal, marriage could result. "One hundred years ago, interracial marriage and same-sex marriages were illegal in the United States. Interracial marriage has been legal now for 50 years, and same-sex marriage is legal in some parts of the states," Levy said. "There has been this trend in marriage where each partner gets to make their own choice of who they want to be with." "The question is not if this will happen, but when," Levy said. "I am convinced the answer is much earlier than you think." When and where it'll happen Levy predicts Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize human-robot marriage. "Massachusetts is more liberal than most other jurisdictions in the United States and has been at the forefront of same-sex marriage," Levy said. 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When it comes to sex and love with robots, "the ethical issues on how to treat them are something we'll have to consider very seriously, and they're very complicated issues," Levy said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.