TheMightyEthan Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 lol, I hadn't looked at that. They're not really the source though, the article is just a write-up of the video at the bottom, which is from NOVA, a PBS documentary series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 We don't even really have the tech yet and folks want to ban sex robots http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34118482 I don't see any problem with them to be honest. Especially from a "this is bad for women". Worth noting for ages women have had electronic male replacements for ages and no one has raised any issues there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 (edited) Sex robots are literally the entire point of making robots! If you ban sex robots then everyone will lose interest in the field and scientific progress will stagnate! Seriously though, that's ridiculous, I see absolutely no issue with sex robots. If anything it seems like it would massively reduce the need for prostitution and all the associated terrible activity (human trafficking, most notably). *Edit - Holy shit, $7,000? That's shockingly affordable. I was expecting it to be in the multiple 10's of thousands. Though of course I wouldn't pay a penny over $1,500... Edited September 15, 2015 by TheMightyEthan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 The only one I'm iffy on is child simulacra, solely for public policy issues of it being impliedly acceptable if a simulation is permitted. (And yes I know this opens a conversation of "murder simulators" etc.) Otherwise it's a "in the privacy of your home" issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 I have the same gut reaction to child simulacra, but when I actually try and think about it from a purely rational perspective I can't come up with a real reason why it's different than any other simulation of illegal activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 I'm the same. I think it's just a public policy / social acceptance thing. I'm comfortable with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Public policy should weigh in favor of child sex simulates if the availability of such simulacra results in pedophiles having sex with robots rather than raping children. I'm not convinced it would, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 To be honest, I can't imagine a company that would make and market this. What would the tag line be? "I can't believe it's not Butters"? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 A Japanese company would. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 I imagine while there's likely a market for that, the suppliers might be less than forthcoming on that front. As mentioned there's not really anything "illegal" about it though I know some places take a hard stance on even owning or producing cartoon CP is illegal. Though it's all an entirely different convo. On the grown-adult models I'd see zero issue with it. Just a very intelligent vibrator or fleshlight really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Oh, I totally agree, TN. Any company that openly sold child sex simulators would be hounded out of existence fairly quickly. Except in Japan, as long as the sex robots were chibi enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Are we just going to act like paedophilia does not exist? Would you rather have them have sex with a robot or a real child? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 ... Pedophilia is what we're talking about... Observe: Public policy should weigh in favor of child sex simulates if the availability of such simulacra results in pedophiles having sex with robots rather than raping children. I'm not convinced it would, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 Like I scrolled that far up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/15/us-tesla-autopilot-idUSKCN0S82SW20151015?utm_source=twitter Tesla is updating a bunch of its cars manufactured over the last year to enable "auto-steering". You're still required to keep your hands on the wheel though, and the car gets mad at you if you don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 As someone who does a lot of long distant driving, that is a neat thing. It's not self-driving but it's pretty close. I'm just not sure if rolling out a feature in beta like that is wise though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 Well I think the reason it's not fully self-driving is that it's in beta. Like, it /is/ self-driving, but since its in beta they put the restrictions on it. That and the fact that the law isn't prepared for self-driving cars yet. But yeah, my family took a 34-hour (round trip) car trip this summer, and a self-driving car would have been extremely nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/most-earth-like-worlds-have-yet-to-be-born-according-to-theoretical-study Not so much technology as science, but a study has concluded that Earth is one of the earliest 8% of all rocky planets in the habitable zone of stars that are likely to ever form. It's not mentioned in the article, and 8% is still an absolute shitload of planets, but it makes me think of the "we're the first" hypothesis for explaining the Fermi paradox. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-12/08/tom-hanks-digital-puppet// http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/12/07/what-makes-tom-hanks-look-like-tom-hanks/ So this is potentially cool tech that can lead the way into virtual actors. At the moment much of it is done quite manually, building it around an algorithm would make it much quicker and cheaper process, and would also allow you to capture anyone in-camera to then be someone else down the line (at the moment they usually get actors playing themselves: See Michael Douglas in Ant-Man, and Jeff Bridges in Tron Legacy). Give it a few years and you'll probably be able to slap your friends face on yourself in some app that draws from FB photos or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blocking-the-sun-is-no-plan-b-for-global-warming/ So folks are throwing around the idea of seeding clouds or similar to block out the sun to tackle global warming and those pesky robots over at 01. It's more than likely pretty damn doable, albeit expensive, but the issue would be the side effects on stuff like Vitamin D generation, and things like photosynthesis n so on. Humanity could survive, but not much else would. Oh and the whole political aspect of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 10, 2015 Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 I can't help but feel that the two parter i) Plant *loads* of trees and ii) Stop burning stuff and use renewable energy is a better solution rather than i) Break stuff ii) Break stuff even more in the hope that it gets so broken that it is fixed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Well that's largely Plan A. But good to have a Plan B. Plan 9 is to go to outer space. It's a huge fucking issue cos it's gonna fuck over everyone, but next to no one can actually actively agree with everyone to try n sort shit out. We're pretty much fucked by a bunch of rich folks temporary ego puffing. If I was pretentious artist type and with the means to do so I'd probably get a mountain side or something and carve in the name each of the world leaders around since we realised climate change was an issue so it'll be there for near perpetuity. I feel for all the smaller nations who are largely contributing nothing to the problem, still likely to be impacted, and too small to be able to do much themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 17, 2015 Report Share Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) More here. Another proposed option is to go to Phobos, which should be a captured asteroid, around Mars and grab a (smaller) sample of that. It can showcase that, yes, our new spacecrafts can get to Mars, land and come back. Not sure if the asteroid deflection part of the mission would be on the table with that since there could be a risk we just send Phobos crashing into Mars... I think we got the physics all worked out so I don't think it is necessary. Edit: Maybe I should mention that deflection of an asteroid also can mean the towing of one which some are worried could be used as a weapon. There is also the thing of grabbing a chunk of it and bringing it into the Earth's neighborhood. Maybe humanity is not meant to colonize space. Edited December 17, 2015 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 They did it! So what happened is this: They got a real live run to work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/06/mc10-wearable-sensors/ This was a CES thing that kinda struck me as kind of neat. Maybe of use to elderly or similar to reduce the amount of wires running around people. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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