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What Sex is Your Robot?
Ant writes "Technology Review has an article about how the more robots interact with humans, the more important their apparent gender becomes."
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"...this is gonna be the best prom ever!"
...that i see word "sex" on slashdot. For a second i thought that we geeks are finally getting lives :) But only for a second - then i read the entire subject.
is a hermaphrodite, male on one side, female on the other.
It's another kind of Transformer. More than meets the eye.
This way I can expand my sexual horizon.
by the inability of the quips to come up with any good material in the first minutes after it was posted.
The Roomba, of course, is that clever little house-cleaning robot
Must be a chick.
... because if a household robot is apparently female, the feminists will complain!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I don't want to offend anyone, but I'd really love a gay robot. That way I don't have to strain myself over choosing what to wear in the morning - the robot would have that kind of knowledge embedded in him - some say it's genetics, some say it's the way he was raised, but either way he makes a snappy dresser.
And the day came when the risk to remain closed in a bud, became more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I don't know if you could even make a female robot. Since the robot's consciousness would have to be controlled by a computer, I assume it would be based on logic and reason. Both of those qualities are sorely lacking in the females that I've known.
Although, I suppose with good enough pseudo-randomness it might work.
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IG_88 is gender neutral!
*DrugCheese rants*
You'd want to have robots of both sex in your cluster. Because then they eventually may reproduce themselves, saving you huge cost if you want to extend it.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Well, you have to ask yourself some questions
Does it have a 'probe'?
Does it have a connector for input devices?
Imho, determining the sex sounds quite easy.
It is the yes kind /me ducks
This is an easy one. When its working correctly its male. When it wont do what its suppose to its female.
That's funny, though. The interior kind of smells of blood. And everyone's really secretive about how they actually built these things.
And I'm sure it shouldn't have gone off on its own like that that one time.
Those two times.
OK, those three times. And that one ended up messy. And hang on... that's just armour plating! It's not a robot at all! What's going on here?
OH MY GOD IT'S MY MOTHER! AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH! AAAAASUKAAAAAA!
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
"Whoah, whoah, wait, Bender. As long as we're here, why don't we take in some exotic dancing?"
"Hey, great idea!"
*gasp* "But those girls don't wear cases! You can see their bare circuits!"
My robot regards himself as an "electro-metro-sexual"
[Snicker] [Chortle] [Coffee-out-the-nose Snort]
You would have to post this right after the "This is going to be the best prom, ever!" comment.You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
the woman robot is the one with the more complicated remote control =)
The research and exploration of space is mainly driven by the prospect of one day having sex with aliens. I think the research on robots has similar motivations.
What's the term I'm looking for... Computers in a cluster, reproducing/copulating... Damn! Mating ball? No...
Great idea! Let us intruduce sexism to robots!
I ask you, is this really a world we want our robots to live in?!
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
A class learning French and trying to get to grips with gender wondered if the word "computer" should be masculine or feminine. Split into two groups, men and women, they were asked to say which they considered a computer to be, and to give four reasons for their decision
The women decided that computers are masculine because:
-In order to gain their attention, you have to turn them on.
-They are full of data, but are still clueless.
-They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but most of the time they are the problem.
-As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better one.
The men decided that computers are feminine because:
-No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
-The language they use to communicate with each other is totally incomprehensible.
-Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
-As soon as you commit to them, you spend half your disposable income on buying accesories for them.
$cat
Why should the female robots do all the housework? For less pay too? Oh wait, robots do not get paid, they are virtual slaves with no rights. Nevermind. ;)
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For reliability reasons, I prefer machines based on eunuchs.
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
This is nothing... I read it first as "What Sex is [Best With] Your Robot?" and have even started to write quite an interesting essay on the subject, entitled "Robosexualism and Technofetishism in Modern Academia," only to have it deleted later in utter embarrassment, after one of my coworkers has read what I was just writing... I don't know which part of "No, it is not my diary, for God's sake! It is a scientific anallysis for Slashdot community!" he doesn't understand...
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Unix, of course!
(sayonara karma)
eleven plus two / twelve plus one
Does this have to do with the direction you put your AA battery into your pocket vibe? Cause they work whichever way they go in, you know..
(I guess this is the point where I mention I'm off getting the vibe for my wife out of the toychest and bringing it back to bed for a mechanical threesome)
(Dammit, that's not a good enough excuse, now I'll have to post this anonymously.)
"Mr Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That's the only planet in the galaxy that can make that claim" - Kirk
"Want sex with your robot?"
yes.
I'm sorry but I stopped reading right here, for I am not quite sure whether I want to read about it...
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
"Most people realize that fundamentally there's nothing going on inside the silicon except the cold calculation of ones and zeros"
Guess he's not running AMD then?
Female Real dolls have a base price of $5999 plus $450 shipping and handling...
The "Interactive sensory response system" is another $1500, and the "hip gyration" is god knows how much more!
scroll to the bottom of this page to see these options.
That's an easy one... Good robots are expensive to build, take a lot of maintenance to keep them happy, and frequent trips to the store.
That sounds like a woman to me. And no, I am not single...
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Lousy rotten karmic retribution.
Disclaimer: I am a very happy Mac owner (iBook) - this is in no way an anti-Mac post.
I seem to recall Anton LaVey forecasting (ie guessing) that a huge industry will develop to produce lifelike humanoid robot slaves, so that instead of wasting our time and energy trying to interact with other people who don't share our sensibilities or views, we'll all be able to gain instant gratification from a robot programmed to respond in the manner that pleases us most.
Not that anyone reading Slashdot would want to disengage from human society and take solace with a bunch of anthropomorphic circuits.
*thinks*
Oh dear.
I've already conclusively proven that male robots cannot handle gender-conversion.
I removed my robot's nuts, and it just totally fell apart.
Oh, $DEITY, now I got disturbing images from the robot strip club in Futurama in my head...
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