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You've just come out of a cryogenic freezer you fell in whilst delivering pizza and the year is now 2192. Humanoid androids have been created which look human, think human and feel almost human. Consider the following situation:
You find a place which is offering the perfect android partner. This includes small, deliberate imperfections (because nobody really wants a perfect partner), but you can give them any personality/physical traits that you want (provided they don't conflict obviously - no tall-short people). Would you order a partner? Would you ever marry (i.e. get in a long term commitment kind of marry) it? Why/why not?
(money is no object)
They're exactly like humans, but they are mechanical instead of biological.
What about the situation where you meet an android normally and fell in love?
You find a place which is offering the perfect android partner. This includes small, deliberate imperfections (because nobody really wants a perfect partner), but you can give them any personality/physical traits that you want (provided they don't conflict obviously - no tall-short people). Would you order a partner? Would you ever marry (i.e. get in a long term commitment kind of marry) it? Why/why not?
(money is no object)
They're exactly like humans, but they are mechanical instead of biological.
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Personally, I would order a partner. I think a robot wife would be superior to a human wife. Also I want a wife who doesn't really want to talk to me very much (or me to talk to her), but I'm not sure if there are any real people like that, and if there was, how would they become my wife?
The only problem is, it might feel like I'm a slave owner, which I really don't want - I would like a wife, not a servant.
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Personally, I would order a partner. I think a robot wife would be superior to a human wife. Also I want a wife who doesn't really want to talk to me very much (or me to talk to her), but I'm not sure if there are any real people like that, and if there was, how would they become my wife?
The only problem is, it might feel like I'm a slave owner, which I really don't want - I would like a wife, not a servant.
What about the situation where you meet an android normally and fell in love?
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No, because after our love affair, all those... moments... will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears... in... rain. Time... to die...
That's just what comes to mind with 'android' k
That's just what comes to mind with 'android' k
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(Original post by Necrosyrtes)
You've just come out of a cryogenic freezer you fell in whilst delivering pizza and the year is now 2192. Humanoid androids have been created which look human, think human and feel almost human. Consider the following situation:
You find a place which is offering the perfect android partner. This includes small, deliberate imperfections (because nobody really wants a perfect partner), but you can give them any personality/physical traits that you want (provided they don't conflict obviously - no tall-short people). Would you order a partner? Would you ever marry (i.e. get in a long term commitment kind of marry) it? Why/why not?
(money is no object)
What about the situation where you meet an android normally and fell in love?
You've just come out of a cryogenic freezer you fell in whilst delivering pizza and the year is now 2192. Humanoid androids have been created which look human, think human and feel almost human. Consider the following situation:
You find a place which is offering the perfect android partner. This includes small, deliberate imperfections (because nobody really wants a perfect partner), but you can give them any personality/physical traits that you want (provided they don't conflict obviously - no tall-short people). Would you order a partner? Would you ever marry (i.e. get in a long term commitment kind of marry) it? Why/why not?
(money is no object)
Spoiler:
Personally, I would order a partner. I think a robot wife would be superior to a human wife. Also I want a wife who doesn't really want to talk to me very much (or me to talk to her), but I'm not sure if there are any real people like that, and if there was, how would they become my wife?
The only problem is, it might feel like I'm a slave owner, which I really don't want - I would like a wife, not a servant.
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Personally, I would order a partner. I think a robot wife would be superior to a human wife. Also I want a wife who doesn't really want to talk to me very much (or me to talk to her), but I'm not sure if there are any real people like that, and if there was, how would they become my wife?
The only problem is, it might feel like I'm a slave owner, which I really don't want - I would like a wife, not a servant.
What about the situation where you meet an android normally and fell in love?
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(Original post by Tom_green_day)
No, because after our love affair, all those... moments... will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears... in... rain. Time... to die...
That's just what comes to mind with 'android' k
No, because after our love affair, all those... moments... will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears... in... rain. Time... to die...
That's just what comes to mind with 'android' k
The date I put is 200 years after the setting of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (or 210 years after Blade Runner was released).
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(Original post by ILovePancakes)
I'm gonna go with no..
I'm gonna go with no..
(Original post by Tootles)
Call me old-fashioned, but I have this... thing. I prefer to marry things that are... y'know... alive. Otherwise it's not marriage.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I have this... thing. I prefer to marry things that are... y'know... alive. Otherwise it's not marriage.
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(Original post by Autistic Merit)
No. I want biological children (i.e. real children).
No. I want biological children (i.e. real children).
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(Original post by Necrosyrtes)
Why?
Why?
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Willing to bet japan would be monopolizing the trade and leading the worlds sex toy industry by then.
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(Original post by Necrosyrtes)
So I assume you wouldn't marry an infertile human?
So I assume you wouldn't marry an infertile human?
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(Original post by ILovePancakes)
It probably has something to do with the fact that it's not human and I wouldn't want to have a partner who has a piece of metal for a penis.
It probably has something to do with the fact that it's not human and I wouldn't want to have a partner who has a piece of metal for a penis.
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(Original post by Necrosyrtes)
Yes, but the only difference is the way the robot actually feels. To all other purposes it is a human. What if you found out after you already formed a relationship?
Yes, but the only difference is the way the robot actually feels. To all other purposes it is a human. What if you found out after you already formed a relationship?
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(Original post by ILovePancakes)
Is the robot capable of emotion?
Is the robot capable of emotion?
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(Original post by Tom_green_day)
No, because after our love affair, all those... moments... will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears... in... rain. Time... to die...
That's just what comes to mind with 'android' k
No, because after our love affair, all those... moments... will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears... in... rain. Time... to die...
That's just what comes to mind with 'android' k
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(Original post by Necrosyrtes)
Yes. They're exactly like humans, but they are mechanical instead of biological. Maybe I should clarify that in the OP.
Yes. They're exactly like humans, but they are mechanical instead of biological. Maybe I should clarify that in the OP.
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(Original post by ILovePancakes)
Can they poo?
Can they poo?
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(Original post by Necrosyrtes)
This is getting pretty complex. I will say yes, so long as they eat (if I were designing an android I'd make them able to eat, if even just for show).
This is getting pretty complex. I will say yes, so long as they eat (if I were designing an android I'd make them able to eat, if even just for show).
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