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Inventor Builds Robot Wife
Inventor Le Trung must really like the book "The Stepford Wives," because he has built the dream of every lonely man without hope, a robot wife. Le's wife, Aiko, starts the day by reading him the newspaper headlines and they go for a drives in the countryside. Le says his relationship with Aiko hasn't strayed into the bedroom, but a few tweaks could turn her into a sexual partner, even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
Actually, this was a guy in Canada, according to the article.
This is probably the best thing I've seen on Idle so far.
You mean Idiocracy ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ ).
Idiocracy (2006): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
exp(i*pi)+1=0
I mean, he had the chance to design his own wife, and look how flat-chested he made her.
Some of us like women like that ;)
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Even Idle ought to be for idle nerds.
And if Slashdot agreed with you, then one way or another this would not have been posted. IMO, it is obvious that they don't share your feelings on this issue. So what exactly are you bitching about, again?
Don't sign your post with Summer Glau unless you spell it correctly.
Smart people do get laid. That's not the issue. Some likely reasons smart people reproduce less that dumb people:
1. They're smarter about avoiding pregnancy if they don't want to have a child. If they fail, they're more likely to have the cash to pay for abortion should they want one.
2. They want to give plenty of attention to each child, so they tend to have 1-4 kids rather than 7-12.
I am officially gone from
The satire in most Mike Judge movies is so dead-on that it's easy to get confused
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I know the guy, he posts on societyofrobots, a robotics forum I used to frequent. Unfortunately, I have to call rubbish on this one. I don't think he knows much about AI. He claims all sorts of incredible things that his robot supposedly does that are all far beyond what anyone has done in robotics, vision or AI as a whole, but never elaborates on how he did it, and discusses design issues that should, in practice, be non-issues.
Link to his thread on that forum: http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1335.0
A quote of interest, from the robot's creator:
"I am what you called a mad scientist. I don:t believe any documentation, No blue print, No paperwork, No Cad. I have build 12+ large robots (main robots) none of which has any documentation or blue print...
Even the software has NO documentation. The software is about 3Gig and I think I have about 15 lines of comments. The typical variable name I used are.... X, X1,X2, A1,A2,AA1,AA2,AAA1,AAA2 etc..."
I am forced to agree I am afraid. This is worse than just a few social misfits or mental defectives.
My own elder brother, who works for a defense contractor, was dumped 14 years ago by his fiancee. He took it hard, but went through grad school, did some top notch work, worked for 2 years at NASA before deciding to make more money. Maybe he decided to drown his sorrows in his work initially, but then work sort of became his joy. I know because I tried to double date a few times.
Now, he is 39, and has been looking at it more seriously. He has spent a lot of money on eHarmony and match.com. However, most women his age are either happily married, or have heavy baggage from failed marriages and not worth marrying, or worse, are gold diggers.
Not saying that he is not carrying baggage as well, but he is now fighting time. In a few years, it will be too late for him to marry someone his age and have kids.
I pray his luck will change, but he is now such an extreme nerd that no one normal wants him. My own gf does not like him too much, even though she is the forgiving type.