Would you marry a robot?

[AbsolutChaos]

What do you think?

...marriage with robots? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/wid/11915829?GT1=10450)

[Mike_Lowery]

Ohhhh, the jokes that came to mind when I read this. :D

[nikki]

I bet it would be popular in Japan.

I'd love a robot slave... clean, cook, chaffeur... but love interest?

[Glen Miyashiro]

The real question is, are robots people? Right now, the answer is clearly no. But in the future, who knows.

"Mom, I've asked Daneel to come to dinner and meet you guys. I really think he's special."

"Oh! I'll make a big pot roast, everybody likes my pot roast."

"Uh... Mom. Daneel's synthetic."

"Huh?"

"He's synthetic. He doesn't eat pot roast."

[silence]

"Well... then I'll make lamb."

[1stwahine]

I bet it would be popular in Japan.

I'd love a robot slave... clean, cook, chaffeur... but love interest?

Ahhhh..come on! Wat? Of course people are gonna marry robots! Get plenny "Lonely" people in dis world. And onnada ting, they can choose the SIZE!:p

Don't get me started!:D

HAHAHAHAHA

Auntie Pupule

[Lei K]

I bet it would be popular in Japan.

This was my first thought when I saw the thread title. :p

[Random]

What do you think?

...marriage with robots? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/wid/11915829?GT1=10450)
Well, it's more plausible than marriage with animals. :p

[Random]

Ohhhh, the jokes that came to mind when I read this. :D
Well, don't hold back on our accounts. :D

At least you know your robotic partner is faking in bed.

[Random]

And onnada ting, they can choose the SIZE!:p

Don't get me started!:D

HAHAHAHAHA
So, size DOES matter. :(

Better save up money for an MGE (Male Genital Enhancement) surgery, if it ever co... err, introduced for the consumers.

[oceanpacific]

Well, a good number of my distaff friends have already complained that their mates are akin to robots and androids ........... :D

[Glen Miyashiro]

Well, it's more plausible than marriage with animals. :pMy wife is an animal, and so am I. :D

[Walkoff Balk]

Only if she can perform the robot dance. If not, then she's a fraud.

[woodman]

Ummm, I dunno!

Show me the bot, first.

[1stwahine]

So, size DOES matter. :(

Shua does in my Book! HAHAHAHAHA:D

Naughty Aunty Lyla!:p

[cynsaligia]

shades o-buffybot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffybot), for us Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans:

(Spike's crypt. He and the Buffybot are sparring)

SPIKE: What you searching for Slayer, weak spot? Try me, give me the best you got. Is that your best Slayer?

BUFFYBOT: No.

SPIKE: Why not?

BUFFYBOT: I wanna hurt you. But I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body.

SPIKE: Maybe I should repay you for your gentleness? Maybe I should let you go?

BUFFYBOT: No, Spike! Never let me go!

SPIKE: You know you should be afraid of me. I'm bad.

BUFFYBOT: You are! You're very, very bad. (flips him, stake at heart)

SPIKE: You're gonna do it that way?

BUFFYBOT: No. (rips open his shirt with stake to flesh) This way.

SPIKE: You can't do it.

BUFFYBOT: I could never do it. I'm helpless against you, you fiend.

SPIKE: (flips her, kisses her, whispers) Buffy...


:p

[nikki]

That article has a link to a story about Charlie Sheen that I thought was funny:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21212671/

[GeckoGeek]

The Stepford Wives

[helen]

Wasn't the plot of The Stepford Wives was the conversion of a human woman (and already married) to a robot? So techinically one would have married a real person.

[GeckoGeek]

Wasn't the plot of The Stepford Wives was the conversion of a human woman (and already married) to a robot? So techinically one would have married a real person.

Minor technicality. The women were replaced by look-alike robots at the preference of their husbands. It's not like they died of natural causes and the husbands created the robots to fill the void.

True, they initially fell in love and married a person, but then they preferred to be married to a robot. Very minor leap to marrying a robot to begin with. (Especially if they could be created with the image and mannerisms of one's first crush. :D )

OMG, I just thought of a plot for a move - a high school reunion, where's it's found that several of the men have married robots that look remarkably like the head cheerleader. And the now older cheerleader has to contend with perfect robots of herself, and her husband's reaction to them. Complicating the issue is one of the robot owners is a guy she had a crush on. I'm not sure yet if it's to be a comedy or some romantic Psychodrama.

Edit: Nah, make her attend with her fiancé - gives her a chance to break up with him and go with her first love. ;)

[i-hungry]

It would cost too much but you could turn him/her off.

[GeckoGeek]

It would cost too much but you could turn him/her off.

Hey, that TV remote could come in handy!

Not to mention "turning them on" when you feel like it. ;)

[Pomai]

Reading this thread makes me want to watch iRobot (Will Smith) again. Cool flick.

Speaking of robots in the movies, the TRANSFORMERS DVD will be released this Tuesday. Yay!

Marrying a robot is wrong on so many levels from ethical, to psychological, to sociological. Engineers, scientists and government are going to have to limit how much human emotion a robot can synthesize, or movies such as Stealth, iRobot and Terminator will become art imitating life.

I can see things like the Tamagotchi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi) (virtual pet), that teach a person responsibility, but once that responsibility becomes emotional attachment, then that could lead to all kinds of problems.

People have even ruined marriages from computers, as folks spend more time online than in the bedroom or sitting down as a family at the dinner table.

This as I type this on my computer. What a hypocrite! :o But if you're reading this, you're just as guilty. :D

[acousticlady]

Deep thoughts........ what if we all are already robots? They are trying to mimic biotechnology to be just like humans. Imagine the robots of the future that look, feel and think no differently from us. Who is the robot then? ;)

[Pomai]

Deep thoughts........ what if we all are already robots? They are trying to mimic biotechnology to be just like humans. Imagine the robots of the future that look, feel and think no differently from us. Who is the robot then? ;)I was going to respond to you a second ago, but the battery that controls my hand's dexterity just died, so I had to change it. :p

Before thinking that we might be robots already, I'd contemplate whether there are (biological) alien beings who walk amongst us.

Wait, Al Gore is a robot, right? So Tipper, hats-off to you. You married a robot. :D

[Bob P]

I bet it would be popular in Japan.

Domo arigato, Mr Roboto



*runs quickly from room*

[Palama Kid]

What do you think?

...marriage with robots? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/wid/11915829?GT1=10450)

According to the link, that AI expert forecasts Massachusetts legalizing this in 2050.

Hmmm. I won't be around then, but having been a poor lonely desperate soul all my life, I'd say yes. Heck, I might even consider it now. Maybe.

It definitely has to be chunky.

[helen]

So if the bride is a robot and comes time to throw the bouquet does she throw flowers or a bunch of Intel 8080 chips?