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There’s only one reason why people want to make robots “humanlike”. It’s sickening.

by deadbabe 2y ago

neogodless 2y ago
To keep the elderly from feeling lonely?
- erikaww 2y ago
  The answer to that is not banning apartments through the vast majorities of our cities, forcing everything to be spread out so that you have to drive a car to participate in society. If the elderly could just walk to where they needed to go or walk around for leisure, they would not age as fast. I shouldn’t have an old lady approach me to help her across a 2 lane + left turn road in Ann Arbor MI because she is afraid she will get hit again. Human looking robots would be such a dystopian and sad solution to elderly loneliness. They need a third place and access to such in old age.
  - SoftTalker 2y ago
    > I shouldn’t have an old lady approach me to help her across a 2 lane + left turn road Where are the Boy Scouts when you need one?
exe34 2y ago
It's important to realise in cases like this you mean it is sickening to you personally (and potentially others). Your wording takes a personal value judgement and clothes it in words that hint at an objective moral judgement.
- deadbabe 2y ago
  Let’s see if you’re this defensive when there’s “humanlike robots” imitating children
  - Propelloni 2y ago
    Can I come with you? * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/quotes/?item=qt0315389&ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/quotes/?item=qt0315389&...
  - robxorb 2y ago
    Assuming what you say is true, wouldn't a clamp-down response to it result in a future where people with a propensity to do these fucked-up things have no outlet but a real child, but a more liberal approach have the result of fewer hurt children? I mean, to me the entire issue is of mental health, and would ideally be addressed that way, but assuming all else is equal any alternative to a kid being harmed should be preferable no matter how otherwise messed up the thing is in and of itself.
    - Teever 2y ago
      Perhaps in the future where we've perfected child sex cyborgs we will have also figured out how to just fix the defect in pedophiles so we won't need the cyborgs?
    - deadbabe 2y ago
      anybody who has these sort of feelings toward children should be found and restrained
  - exe34 2y ago
    Oh that's where your mind went to, I hadn't thought about it that way.
    - deadbabe 2y ago
      So now you owe me an upvote

There’s only one reason why people want to make robots “humanlike”. It’s sickening.

neogodless 2y ago

To keep the elderly from feeling lonely?

erikaww 2y ago
The answer to that is not banning apartments through the vast majorities of our cities, forcing everything to be spread out so that you have to drive a car to participate in society. If the elderly could just walk to where they needed to go or walk around for leisure, they would not age as fast. I shouldn’t have an old lady approach me to help her across a 2 lane + left turn road in Ann Arbor MI because she is afraid she will get hit again. Human looking robots would be such a dystopian and sad solution to elderly loneliness. They need a third place and access to such in old age.
- SoftTalker 2y ago
  > I shouldn’t have an old lady approach me to help her across a 2 lane + left turn road Where are the Boy Scouts when you need one?

exe34 2y ago

It's important to realise in cases like this you mean it is sickening to you personally (and potentially others). Your wording takes a personal value judgement and clothes it in words that hint at an objective moral judgement.

deadbabe 2y ago
Let’s see if you’re this defensive when there’s “humanlike robots” imitating children
- Propelloni 2y ago
  Can I come with you? * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/quotes/?item=qt0315389&ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/quotes/?item=qt0315389&...
- robxorb 2y ago
  Assuming what you say is true, wouldn't a clamp-down response to it result in a future where people with a propensity to do these fucked-up things have no outlet but a real child, but a more liberal approach have the result of fewer hurt children? I mean, to me the entire issue is of mental health, and would ideally be addressed that way, but assuming all else is equal any alternative to a kid being harmed should be preferable no matter how otherwise messed up the thing is in and of itself.
  - Teever 2y ago
    Perhaps in the future where we've perfected child sex cyborgs we will have also figured out how to just fix the defect in pedophiles so we won't need the cyborgs?
  - deadbabe 2y ago
    anybody who has these sort of feelings toward children should be found and restrained
- exe34 2y ago
  Oh that's where your mind went to, I hadn't thought about it that way.
  - deadbabe 2y ago
    So now you owe me an upvote