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I don't think it's that far off, especially with computers to do the hard work. I wouldn't be surprised if there's children alive today that will live to 200.

The Asus Strix 970 is on sale for $329. It's one of the faster ones, and the quietest.

Yeah same shit from Strange Days, or a number of other stories. This will probably happen, but likely a few decades after really good sex robots are possible. I still think basic economics works against sex robots though.

I've seriously lost like 150 limited rating since FRF came out on MTGO. This set fucking blows, that whole pack is filled nothing but bombs and garbage.

Yeah, but if it were legal and safe and regulated it would be a lot more common/more of a viable occupation.

I meant robots vs prostitutes, not actual girlfriends.

If prostitution were safe and legal, at the high end you'd probably have situations like in Firefly where in-demand companions had their pick of clients vying for their attention rather than the other way around, which would address some of your compulsion concerns, Cad.

Yeah but girls will also do the girlfriend experience. Who will do it better and at a lower cost?

"I'm a cubicle dwelling STEM grad/other white collar professional who spent 8 years of my life camping raid bosses in Plane of XYZ and I think I know how the world works!"

Do you ever think maybe you're the naive ones?

That's part of what I'm saying too. I don't think sex bots would even compete very well with VR sex with a real person.

Kedwyn brought it up.

Law of the instrument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia?

I'm just saying out of the subset of people who would pay money for a sex object specifically so that they can abuse it, I doubt those people that would get much pleasure out of abusing a robot versus the real thing if both were comparable prices in a world where humans were competing with...

How many assholes love kicking their dogs? I definitely think sexbots, if they're good enough, can have their place in the market, but demand for the real thing will always be high. Especially if we're talking about the evil shit.

Our non-renewable energy consumption is very quietly going down at a pretty good rate and the rate of the downward trend is escalating. As for food, there's tons of very efficient ways of feeding a lot of people that we haven't explored. Bug farming for one. Just reprocess that bug meat...

Yeah I think virtual reality porn and/or live interactive VR prostitution probably has huge potential, way more than sex bots. VR prostitution is just an evolution of phonesex lines.

If we're going to talk about the darker side of prostitution, I don't think people will get enough satisfaction out of abusing and degrading a robot. People will always be willing to pay a premium to abuse a real person.

Norm could maybe get through 1 story a night the way he rambles.

I agree with a lot of this, but I don't see entertainment ever getting to be larger than say 20% of the economy, but that's a huge gain from the <5% it is now. The whole thing about being an entertainer is that you entertain a lot of people at a time. It's another reason why I think the idea...

Neuropharmacologywill most likely be 'solved' by mechanical minds but drugs are only a small portion of psychotherapy, let alone the entire field of mental health or psychology in general. I'll most likely end up in a job writing education curriculum or education policy anyway, which is not...

My current job of compiling stats and instructing tutors, definitely. My future potential jobs? Almost certainly not.

This is basically why I decided to go into psychology, rather than staying in IT or making another attempt at a CS degree. We'll make computers that fix themselves and eventually program themselves within my lifetime, but people will always be broken and likely just keep getting crazier...

Just found out my mom's lawyer for the property damage case against the town has been completely negligent and/or scamming us the entire time. I thought he just had incompetent office staff, I had no idea he was a fucking crook.

It's snowing again. Fuck my fucking life.

I'm not actually denying that.

I haven't put out anything you could call a particular idea. The closest thing I even got to making a real point is that when you create an atmosphere that's overtly hostile and suspicious of real rape victims, all you're going to get are fake rape victims.

Win 10 is pretty zippy on even shit hardware. Microsoft has gotten pretty good at that part.

This show came into it's own fast. That was one of the most interesting episodes of TV that I've watched in a while.

What the fuck are you even talking about? You're the one that tried to make the case that legalized prostitution would reduce rapes, the burden of demonstrating that is on you.

I don't think legalized prostitution would lower incidents of rape at all. It's not a case of substitute goods. Still in favor of it.

I don't know where you got that from what I said.

You're irrationally defensive about this particular issue, exactly like what I was describing.

I've worked intake at abused women shelters and other crisis centers. It's a shit detail, for sure. I'm not going to get into personal anecdotes from family or friends.

I never proposed a solution. I've admitted that my position leaves a lot to be desired. But you have to acknowledge that ideas that you disagree with aren't necessarily crazy.

I'm definitely 100% in favor of legalized prostitution, so long as it's safe and at least marginally regulated. That said, in the reality of shitty.cops.US, the protection racket for prostitutes would just move from pimps to cops.

Covered in other thread. In murders, the victim can't speak for themselves. In rapes, which are a lot more common than murders, the victim can speak but isn't believed.

No, acknowledging cognitive biases is a lot different from bullshit like check your privileges. Admit the fact that this fear of epidemic of false rape accusations comes from confirmation bias due to over-reporting/under-reporting.

I've put out what side of the equation my biases are one. I'm just trying to get people to willingly and explicitly admit their own biases. When topics of race come up, I'm the first one to admit that I'm kinda racist. I just think people should be honest about their biases instead of...

Dominos should change their slogan to: "If it's in walking distance, possibly consider it?"