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Human-Robot Love and Marriage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hardly-miss-hoomans-at-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC has an article on the impending robo-human coupling: 'My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots,' artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience."

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  1. DON'T DATE ROBOTS by katterjohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    This message brought to you by the Space Pope

  2. Don't Date Robots! by orkysoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    My god, he hasn't seen the video!

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    1. Re:Don't Date Robots! by lostsatellite82 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Good this they only have Lucy Liu so far. The day they start making Natalie Portman, the world stops producing babies.

  3. Re:This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, I worked with one fellow who had his penis injured by a computer.

    Some of IBM's mid-range systems from the late 1980s (actually quite large, physically, by today's standards...) had a circular opening about 2 inches in diameter. This opening was near some circuitry or device that would heat up rather quickly. So with the help of some duct tape and foam, this hardware admin fashioned himself a warm vagina of sorts, right on the side of our IBM system.

    We're not sure how long he had a "relationship" with the system, but it came to an end one day when during lunch he ran over to a group of us, with his hands covered in blood. Apparently the foam vagina tore, and a piece of metal got him on the penis shaft. He went to the hospital, and was okay in the end. But he didn't really last long with the company after that...

  4. This was a triumph by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm making a note here:
    HUGE SUCCESS!

    Remember, your companion cube will never stab you.

  5. Re:stupid by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not marry your lawnmower?

    YOU try sticking your dick in the lawnmower, THEN you'll know.

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  6. Re:Mass by tinrobot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've often observed that the people most freaked out by homosexuality are repressing it within themselves.

  7. Nah homoseuality isn't natural .. but by OzPeter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
    Bruce Bagemihl
    St Martins Press, 1999
    ISBN 0-312-19239-8 (hc)
    ISBN 0-312-25377-X (pbk)

    750 pages of documented animal same sex behaviour from around the world covering pretty well covering every area of fauna speaks for itself.

    Which always makes me ask questions when I hear people say that homeosexuality is a choice.

    If it is free choice, and animals perform homosexual acts, does that mean that animals have free will and the ability to make such a choice?

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  8. Re:This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER... by Man+of+E · · Score: 5, Funny
    Do you take this robot to be your lawfully welded husband? I do

    Fixed the typo for you.

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  9. Re:a sex robot with us already, disguised as a hor by dosius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shall we start an "XXX-Prize" then?

    *runs*

    -uso.

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  10. Re:stupid by CynicalTyler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not marry your lawnmower?

    YOU try sticking your dick in the lawnmower, THEN you'll know. Better a lawnmower than my ex-girlfriend.