>--- Miike Quenling Ellis <flagrant_sake at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>like a robot girlfriend?
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>wait...i could program my robot girlfriend for a determinate amount of
>random behavior to make it seem more realistic and then program my own
>brain to forget that i did that..... of course since i forgot that she's a
>robot i might break up with her for acting 'crazy' and then decide it'd be
>easier to program a robot girlfriend.....so on and so on.
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_Futurama_ did a nice routine on this. They showed Fry one of those
hygiene movies they used to show high schoolers, now showing the perils
of dating robots. In the film, a kid downloads a Marilyn Monrobot, and
he spends all of his time kissing and smooching and everything else with
her... even when his father wants him to get a job, and his girlfriend
wants him to travel across the street so they can smooch at her house.
The narrator intones that _all of human civilization_ was created to
impress members of the opposite sex-- except for drama, which was
created to impress members of the _same_ sex. Meanwhile, while
civilization has crumbled, the boy is now an old man, gasping out his
last breath as the still-gorgeous Marilyn Monrobot continues to kiss and
hold and love him. The Moral? DON'T DATE ROBOTS!!!
Maybe it's a good thing we don't have robot girlfriends. Otherwise, we'd have to make do with photographs, artist's renderings, recorded video and films of beautiful women, designed to get men aroused.