So many great opportunities for light rail around here, especially because of the geographical constraints. If there were big subsidies for doing it, I think the city would get interested.
kibiz0r
In these sexual relationships, availability and consent will always be taken for granted, something that’s never taken for granted in a sexual relationship with another human being.
People could get used to interacting in a way in which the other person isn’t taken into account as much, meaning that sexual partners could be instrumentalized for the purpose of having sex. That is to say the ‘human-humanoid’ interaction could be transferred to the relationship between two human beings.
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Unfortunately, however, these advances aren’t being accompanied by deep reflections about the consequences that sex with robots can have.
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On the contrary. I want people to have their own opinions, and to buy the things that suit their tastes even if they seem silly to me.
And I want those things to have fair, consumer-friendly regulations applied to them.
And when companies try to abuse their consumers, and I want us to criticize the company rather than the consumer.
No, but there’s an amendment that says you don’t need such an amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
You’re starting on the wrong end.
People want games that the devs care about making. Whether it has sex or friendship or romance or relativistically-accurate jiggle physics.
People don’t know what they want until it’s in front of them, but devs know what they wanna make.
When you blame consumers for allowing antisocial tech into their lives, you’re doing free work for the tech barons.
Pretty nice way to bridge the gap between documentation and automation.
We really are obsessed with replicating any and all sci-fi cautionary tales, aren’t we?
If Dolly Parton is politely asking you to stop being a shit, you’re a 100% certified shit.
“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across, otherwise they will fight like a caged and cornered tiger.”