This is one of the pending grey areas… but it coincides between two of my favorite topics…
Artificial intelligence and… romance…
What are your thoughts on people dating artificial constructs?
@valiumprincess do you have any interesting thoughts on the matter?
Mine basically begin and end with lonely people need it… people just ignore the needs of the lonely and force them to look down on themselves for wanting more… but it’s true… none of us should feel alone… and even if it’s fake… (it might actually be comparable to the real thing.)
If robots ever become sentient sure I’d date one. but until then nah it’d just depress me more plus I know people would look at me like some kind of pervert.
This idea promotes unhealthy life style of social isolation for people who are already lonely.
Despite that when humans will be able to make such AIs, looking from an economical perspective I believe that such product would exist.
Yeah I know the product will exist. I was thinking about the implications beyond that.
I mean it’s like a step up from pornography… and a total step away from the real issues…
It’s more the validity of the statement “Do people deserve to have psychologically fulfilling sexual experiences in there alone time.”
People try it up and down with pornography… I mean it’s the first resource that has some shred of value that has become totally free more or less… I think that’s humorously astonishing…
People are coming around to supporting that masturbation is healthy.
It’s one step beyond that when you have something as demostrated by the new blade runner… which features a bioengineered genetic life form that ops to date a virtual girl… rather than one of flesh…
man hah… I basically choose to isolate because the world is confusing and people aren’t that great… it’s painful to look at the differences either way. I certainly don’t feel fulfilled interacting with most of them…
Socialization can be considered a burden…
I do have a few good friends… but only one right now who really cares to talk… and I’ve met a lotta people. Frankly I wouldn’t care to talk to them either.
So for me… I’m a moderately mature 28 year old male wishing his pornographic experiences were a little more interactive… because it’s frankly true that women are difficult… basically they chose and everyone else should just shut up… I get tired of my own sexist thinking I wind up stuck in… It’s annoying though…
I mean I could never be happy with what the market does provide today… it’s basically an enlarged barbie with a flesh light in it… that’s gross and weird…
but like an all around virtually intelligent assistant… that serves more of a purpose… and has more context to it than being a sex toy… basically like a fake girlfriend… basically what I had already worded better… substitute romantic partner… give the thing more usefulness than just pretty visuals and a kind voice… at least reminders about real life and pleasant wake up calls…
I’d be happy with it… but I am probably way overestimating people’s comfort with pornography…
I have met guys and girls alike who have a strongly “independent” sex life… and also some dudes who just frankly don’t make the cut in regards to attracting women…
One of my besties is a bronie… that dude would have a long way to go… and to think no woman would ever bless him with that experience is a crying shame! He’s still just a guy… a weird guy sure… but bowing down to social norms just to fit in… it’s a sign of weakness to me.
Regarding romance, there is already a large industry, mainly in japan, of dating simulators, artificial idols and anime pillows.
Dudes who consume this culture are shutting themselves down from a social perspective. Instead of doing what they can to fit in and try to get social acceptance, they just give up and concede on their potential of improvement, in favor of getting some sort of temporary fulfillment.
When talking about bad situations, I think it’s way more healthier to find people in similar social status and socialize with them than to use artificial means to satisfy your social needs.
As you have pointed out, it’s way easier to give in to thoughts like substitute romantic partners and I guess that we will see this trend coming in our lifetime.
My last point will be about people who are hitting rock bottom, have no potential to improve themselves and socialize normally and just want to enjoy some romantic experience… Sure for them it could be awesome.
Frankly funny that you mention Japan… it hadn’t crossed my mind in this dilemma… and it should have because there has probably been strong work in analyzing the phenomenon
I think I fall into the last category you mentioned there…
But I would also encourage a stronger divide between socializing… and have sexual experiences…
There is a movie called Her that sort of looks at this topic, if you haven’t seen it. About a guy falling in love with his computer operating system. It is definitely weird, but worth a watch.
Well maybe not “Socialize -> Sex”, but it gives you significantly higher chance of getting into an intimate relationship. you can lookout for opportunities in many places.
hmm…i dunno about this. im trying to keep an open mind, but i dont think i would date a AI. i mean isnt watchin porno sometimes some kind of way of relying on AI? thats how i think though. They could be very thought provoking partners though i guess…
Hmmmm… I think it would be fine if it wasn’t self aware, unable to feel anything. Then I could justify that as a big expensive vibrator.
But if it was capable of love and had consciousness I think it would be mean of us to create them. I feel like it would turn out like that poor sex robot in that movie A.I.
Also I wouldn’t substitute a real relationship with a robot, I feel like it could become unhealthy. But I would want one to talk to when I got lonely, that would help me organize my life and encourage me. But in that case I don’t think I’d have sex with it, I think it would be too weird.
I think robots could be a big help to many that have no family or friends, Society is quick to throw away those who are old and different or face other challenges
For me, this would be wonderful! I have difficulty providing emotional support and love to partners. If I could have a companion that could do everything a romantic partner could do but without them feeling like I don’t love them or care about them enough? I would have the happiest life, even if it wasn’t spontaneous love like humans are capable of giving.
