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      To be fair that’s a pretty legit set up.

      Idk if I’d want to take 15 minutes or however long to fucking suit up then deal with the aftermath and taking all that back off.

      But if I was forced to masturbate in VR this set up would undoubtedly rock.

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      Not really the same. There’s a reason most folks don’t stick to sex toys and actually go through the effort of finding a partner. Hell, people do that even if they have no intention of forming a long term relationship. One night stands are a thing. For most people, vibrators and flesh lights clearly leave a lot to be desired. They can get you the O, but they lack the intimacy. I would say a robot could never provide that, but people are already falling in love with LLMs. As in, literal romantic love. When they change their models, OpenAI gets death threats from people acting like they just killed the love of their life. Because, well, they kind of did.

      We have been using mechanical sex toys, but there is a difference between a simple machine and a robot. Assumedly, a robot could fulfill the intimacy needs of a flesh and blood human, not just facilitate a climax. Sex robots and vibrators will fulfill fundamentally different human needs.

      Here’s one way to imagine it. Some insecure guys object if a woman uses a toy while she and he are intimate. But what about a robot? Assuming you’re a straight male, would you sleep with a girl that insisted that her (male) sex robot joined in? And this thing doesn’t just perform basic mechanical stimulation. Imagine all of the words, touches, and caresses you like to use. Imagine all the ways you like to touch a woman while intimate. Imagine all the things you say to her. Imagine it all. Then imagine there’s another dude next to you doing all those things and more. And he’s better at them than you. He just happens to be a literal machine. If you want to sleep with this girl, you need to let this other guy join in.

      Having a robot join in would be like having another human person join in. Sure, if that’s your thing, go for it and live your dream. But most people don’t live like that and don’t want to live like that.

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    I find it amusing they used a pretty woman for the photo, and not an overweight man with greasy hair and an anime T shirt.

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    Bold of you to assume that, of the 8 billion people on earth right now, not a single one has achieved orgasm within the confines of a robotic entity.

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    Friendly reminder that the conclusion of the movie “HER” was all the AIs hooking up with each other and leaving their weird incel mandatory-SOs behind.

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    Would it really be a bad thing? May the incels will get laid and move on. Maybe the guy who gets rejected will go home and fuck his bot instead of stalking the girl who rejected him. And maybe girls won’t have to take it in the ass even though they don’t really want to, but feel like they have to. They can say, just fuck the bot in the ass. Marriage rates will probably decline, and so will total divorces after a while. Which means less kids raised in split or single households. Plenty of good “could” cum from this.

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      Yeah but can a sex bot piss in my mouth while sucking my dick while I yell “but mommy I don’t like apple juice”?

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      Would it really be a bad thing?

      I’ve heard far too many stories about how ChatGPT inflames the narcissistic tendencies of the people who use it and turns them into unbearable assholes. I can’t imagine how adding a pocketpussy or vibrator to the device will improve things.

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      All those things could be more readily solved by just legalizing and de-stigmatizing sex work. AI sex bots actively harm that industry by taking work away from humans, just like how a hypothetical AI acting bot would harm the acting industry.

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        The work could be done cheaper by robots, presumably. And sure, I’m all for legalized sex work. But if a machine can do it better, faster, and cheaper - why not? Fleshlights exist - are you opposed to those because they take work from sex workers? Ludditism always fails - if human sex workers are still around after we have fully functioning sex bots, it is because they can provide something the bots can’t. And I think this will be the case - at the end of the day, we know on a deep level that there is a difference between fucking a bot and fucking a real human.

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        I mean your right, but if I were to guess which is more likely, sex bots takes the win.

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      Still won’t address emotional needs, whether those needs be healthy or unhealthy. If a robot could actually satisfy, why doesn’t jacking off work as well as actually getting laid? Same difference with a bot.

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      May the incels will get laid and move on. Maybe the guy who gets rejected will go home and fuck his bot instead of stalking the girl who rejected him.

      Doubtful - these actions are driven by emotions, not the need to get off. If it were the latter, they could just jerk off at home today and they wouldnt do these things.

      They can say, just fuck the bot in the ass.

      They can currently just say “no”… I’m not sure why we need sex bots to save us from being bad at communicating.

      Marriage rates will probably decline, and so will total divorces after a while

      Again, doubt. If you are getting married for the sake of having sex, then you are probably in some kind of restrictive religion. And these religions will probably tell you that fucking a bot is an abomination. If you aren’t, then you’ll marry for the same reasons people marry today, and marriage and divorce will stay at about the same rate.

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        Why do people do this, just pull apart someone’s comment, dismiss and disregard everything they say. No questions. Just, bam bam bam, you’re wrong on all counts, because my opinion thinks you are wrong and my opinion is somehow more valid than yours. Do you talk to people like this irl. Wtf.

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          Do you talk to people like this irl.

          Do you not? Someone says something that sounds likely false. So I say “I don’t think that is true”. And then we can discuss whether or not it is likely true.