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I think the post misses completely the point of technology replacing humans. Like autonomous cars, sex robots will be viable when they are better than the alter

I think the post misses completely the point of technology replacing humans. Like autonomous cars, sex robots will be viable when they are better than the alternative. And for many people, this means better than nothing/sex toys. They don't need to be perfect as it suggests.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago
Or even, more fantasy and less reality. The measurements of a sex robot don't have to be even close to plausible.
- venomsnake 11y ago
  Or the general number/location of appendixes and orifices.
nugget 11y ago
Spot on . . . to borrow from Thoreau, ''the mass of men lead [sex] lives of quiet desperation''. (As a man, I'm more familiar with the male perspective.) I think even a crude early version of a sex robot that males could interact with at home would revolutionize society with all sorts of consequences to romantic relationships, birth rates, social development, and so on. Combine the physical manipulations with AI and VR and I think it will be as or more important than developments like self driving cars and 1 hour drone deliveries.
- kilroy123 11y ago
  But only if the cost was very low. Right now this kind of product exists but is way too much for most men: https://www.realdoll.com https://www.realdoll.com [NSFW] Personally, I would not be interested unless the robot was indistinguishable from a real human.
- greggman 11y ago
  Isn't that already happening? Not to pick on the Japanese in particular but it's low-hanging fruit search wise https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=japanese%20men%20not%20interesting%20in%20sex&es_th=1 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
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quietplatypus 11y ago
We just need artificial wombs at this point. No seriously. Why tie the survival of the species to fickle personal factors?
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Eridrus 11y ago
But better along what axis? There is a lot of stigma around having a sex doll/robot. There's even a smaller amount of stigma around sex toys for men. So to penetrate a mass market it would have to not just be better than a sex toy, it would have to be better enough that it outweighs the stigma associated with it (and the difficulty of keeping it hidden).
hammock 11y ago
>sex robots will be viable when they are better than the alternative. And for many people, this means better than nothing/sex toys Or better than a fat wife that will take the house and kids when you divorce.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago

Or even, more fantasy and less reality. The measurements of a sex robot don't have to be even close to plausible.

venomsnake 11y ago
Or the general number/location of appendixes and orifices.

nugget 11y ago

Spot on . . . to borrow from Thoreau, ''the mass of men lead [sex] lives of quiet desperation''. (As a man, I'm more familiar with the male perspective.) I think even a crude early version of a sex robot that males could interact with at home would revolutionize society with all sorts of consequences to romantic relationships, birth rates, social development, and so on. Combine the physical manipulations with AI and VR and I think it will be as or more important than developments like self driving cars and 1 hour drone deliveries.

kilroy123 11y ago
But only if the cost was very low. Right now this kind of product exists but is way too much for most men: https://www.realdoll.com https://www.realdoll.com [NSFW] Personally, I would not be interested unless the robot was indistinguishable from a real human.
greggman 11y ago
Isn't that already happening? Not to pick on the Japanese in particular but it's low-hanging fruit search wise https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=japanese%20men%20not%20interesting%20in%20sex&es_th=1 https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

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quietplatypus 11y ago

We just need artificial wombs at this point. No seriously. Why tie the survival of the species to fickle personal factors?

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Eridrus 11y ago

But better along what axis? There is a lot of stigma around having a sex doll/robot. There's even a smaller amount of stigma around sex toys for men. So to penetrate a mass market it would have to not just be better than a sex toy, it would have to be better enough that it outweighs the stigma associated with it (and the difficulty of keeping it hidden).

hammock 11y ago

>sex robots will be viable when they are better than the alternative. And for many people, this means better than nothing/sex toys Or better than a fat wife that will take the house and kids when you divorce.