The future, what will it hold for us?

As long as prostitutes are cheaper, sexbots will just be a novelty luxury item.

I mean fleshlights apparently sell. I can see that there would be a business for some femme-bots. But not a take over the world kind of business.

They would lease them in your higher end gentlemans clubs.

As long as I can get giant robot hands all is well.

Arbitrary_sl said:

You guys are thinking small potatoes with your human female sex bots. The money is in providing things that do not exist. Aliens, dragons, anthropomorphic animals of all species and colors. The cat girl sales to Japanalonewill make you a king.

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If they can make catgirl/cat boy sex robots that look even half decent japan will cease to exist as a country in 50 years due to nobody having any kids any more.

That shit is seriously over reported. And bear in mind that science reporting outside of professional journals is pretty dodgy to begin with. We're not going to be pushing the lifespan past 130 for a while. I mean generations. There may be babies born today that live that long. That is probably pretty close to a natural upper boundary, and there's no reason to think we'll suddenly become worse at treating disease and disorder. I'd expect rather large advances in those areas which will account for another steady increase in average and exceptional lifespans.

Honestly it's not that the math is hard when it comes to gene manipulation. It's that things don't work that way. To the combined relief and disappointment of many.

We don't actually have designer babies. We do have at least one with 3 parents... which is bizzare (in humans, other mammals do it. You ever see a really fucked up looking cat... he probably has 2 daddies) and they used it to combat a known double recessive. But that's not a made to spec baby. That's just kind of a neat trick.

There is a very long way to go with stem cell research. And we have to, we MUST truly understand the mechanisms before we tinker with them. And you're talking about mastery over the stem cells of stem cells. Even if you knew exactly what to do and exactly how to do it (which no one does), the only way you can MAKE that baby is in a lab in the first few hours of life. The only way you can GROW that baby is in a uterus.

And you can't just pop it into a syringe and squirt it into her belly. That doesn't work very well either.

From a sociologist no less! A study of human nature is perhaps the only thing that EverQuest was actually good for.

Granted, a somewhat self-limiting and constricted subset.

Pokemon sexbots are going to make millions.

There was an episode on "Curiosity: Can we live forever", with Adam Savage a few years back that dealt with this very topic. Basically, if memory serves me, there is a problem with the brain and how much it can really hold. I seem to recall it was about 200 years worth of data/memories. It only holds so much. Not to mention it starts to shrink quite rapidly past 160 years or so. It was pretty fascinating.

None of that is why you said you made the decision.

Mist_sl said:

I'm just saying, a bunch of cubicle dwelling people who played EQ for a thousands of hours over a decade telling me they know more about human nature is absurd.

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For someone who's admitted to still being dominated by their mother and generally miserable in life I'm going to have to call pot/kettle on this one.