Android Spouses or Real Human Spouses: Which do you Prefer?

[Light 086]

Oh, I'll keep my real spouse.

But when technology gets advanced enough, we'll all be going to android brothels.

Admit it.

NO!!! I would never do that...

well maybe a little...

okay I admit it, I would. Happy now?

On Topic:
Why not? Androids would be great for sexual adventures. Can be programmed to try anything, can't have children, and won't get STD's (if designed in such a manner).

I might put myself in an android body and design it not to age or get sick.

Off Topic:
This remind anyone one of Armitage?

 

[latenightapplepie]

Would all my friends know that my spouse was an android? Or could I keep it a secret?

 

[redisforever]

Human, because of the little things. Talking to them, and things like that.

 

[DasDestroyer]

I'd choose human, but if you were to give me the choice to be a human or an android - I would be android all the way.

 

[iDoom46]

Real human, hands down.
The simple fact that you have to FIND the right person for you and learning all about them is part of what makes falling in love so special, I think. It gets kind of ruined when you are making the person and you, therefore already know everything there is to know about them.

Aside from all that, there's also the fact that you'd age but they'd stay the same, which is a haunting, and kind of creepy thought.

Plus, androids don't really exist anyway.

 

[Zaik]

Android spouse, with a remote that has a mute button, and also an off switch.

If it came down to some sort of needing to propagate the species to survive deal i'd just donate some sperm to a sperm bank, not really an incredibly difficult to comprehend concept.

 

[Paksenarrion]

Predictability can be solved if the android's OS is Windows 7. Just surf online until you get a virus and wait for the results.

 

[FalloutJack]

Oh, I'll keep my real spouse.

But when technology gets advanced enough, we'll all be going to android brothels.

Admit it.

No, I've seen Ghost in the Shell, so no android brothels for me, thanks.

Also, no android wives. You can't marry what doesn't pass a turing test.

 

[Verlander]

Flaws and illogical emotional responses are interesting and the true structure of character. I'm not sure I could like someone who would choose a programmable spouse, the attitude behind it is a bit... shifty...

 

[Hoplon]

Oh, I'll keep my real spouse.

But when technology gets advanced enough, we'll all be going to android brothels.

Admit it.

No, I've seen Ghost in the Shell, so no android brothels for me, thanks.

Also, no android wives. You can't marry what doesn't pass a turing test.

some one needs to read the Op...

They are UTMs, so would pass the Turing test.

 

[FalloutJack]

Oh, I'll keep my real spouse.

But when technology gets advanced enough, we'll all be going to android brothels.

Admit it.

No, I've seen Ghost in the Shell, so no android brothels for me, thanks.

Also, no android wives. You can't marry what doesn't pass a turing test.

some one needs to read the Op...

They are UTMs, so would pass the Turing test.

Oh, please go read Blade Runner again. They really don't.

 

[Hoplon]

Oh, I'll keep my real spouse.

But when technology gets advanced enough, we'll all be going to android brothels.

Admit it.

No, I've seen Ghost in the Shell, so no android brothels for me, thanks.

Also, no android wives. You can't marry what doesn't pass a turing test.

some one needs to read the Op...

They are UTMs, so would pass the Turing test.

Oh, please go read Blade Runner again. They really don't.

What does a work of fiction have to do with hypothetical digital computer technology?

The human brain, the closest we have to a UTM, produced conscious beings. On that logic anything that machine that qualifies as one is going to able to simulate it to the point that it would pass the Turing test, rendering the difference moot.

 

[Iron Lightning]

Real girls, on the other hand, are almost randomly generated and with roughly 3.5 billion of them it's statistically likely that at least one real girl is now or will become a perfect companion for me. However, it's extremely unlikely that I will ever meet my hypothetical perfect companion. Still, my perfect companion probably exists as a real girl and probably can not exist as an android, therefore real girls are superior companions to androids.

The extreme statistical unlikeliness - ultimately approaching zero - of any female even being an optimal companion for me, or in fact, even any sort of agreeable companion at all leads me to believe that the correct answer here is "neither".

In most cases you'd be right. My point was that while the virtue of being a perfect companion is extremely unlikely in humans, it is impossible for the virtue to exist in an android. Therefore humans are superior to androids as companions for other humans when such unlikely things occur. Although androids generally make for higher quality mates. So on further reflection it is more likely to obtain the highest quality mate as an android rather than a human.

This thread was partially inspired by Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life [http://www.bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil/].

 

[FalloutJack]

Oh, I'll keep my real spouse.

But when technology gets advanced enough, we'll all be going to android brothels.

Admit it.

No, I've seen Ghost in the Shell, so no android brothels for me, thanks.

Also, no android wives. You can't marry what doesn't pass a turing test.

some one needs to read the Op...

They are UTMs, so would pass the Turing test.

Oh, please go read Blade Runner again. They really don't.

What does a work of fiction have to do with hypothetical digital computer technology?

The human brain, the closest we have to a UTM, produced conscious beings. On that logic anything that machine that qualifies as one is going to able to simulate it to the point that it would pass the Turing test, rendering the difference moot.

Well, hypothetical digital computer technology basically IS fiction. They're both not real. You see where I'm going with this? He made reference to the Nexus-6, which is a Blade Runner thing, so the idea is that we are indeed talking fiction as much as hypotheticals, hand in hand. I, in turn, made a humorous comment involving Ghost in the Shell, which proves the dangers of android relations in that if something were to go wrong, you could be ripped apart because it does not pass as a human mind in truth.

Of course, I made the whole comment as a one-off, but here you are asking me to explain the joke.

 

[Jegsimmons]

are you same guy who made that "Real or anime" thread?

Nope, that was Christian Fernandez.

seriously people, go human, i know we're nerds but lets not let people think that.

though im not sure if i should talk, i have (non-sexual) interest in centaurs

You know you could totally make it a centaur.

good point, but i'm going to rely on the grey zebra which has the same number of chromosomes as humans, and then cross breeding other bipedal species.....then without warning, I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH MY LOYAL CENTAUR FOLLOWERS!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

(wow i have problems)

 

[Iron Lightning]

Oh, I'll keep my real spouse.

But when technology gets advanced enough, we'll all be going to android brothels.

Admit it.

No, I've seen Ghost in the Shell, so no android brothels for me, thanks.

Also, no android wives. You can't marry what doesn't pass a turing test.

some one needs to read the Op...

They are UTMs, so would pass the Turing test.

Oh, please go read Blade Runner again. They really don't.

What does a work of fiction have to do with hypothetical digital computer technology?

The human brain, the closest we have to a UTM, produced conscious beings. On that logic anything that machine that qualifies as one is going to able to simulate it to the point that it would pass the Turing test, rendering the difference moot.

Agreed, I only used the Blade Runner reference because it most easily described the general sort of android that I wished to refer to in this thread. I believe that the Tyrell corporation only made the androids capable of failing the Turing test as a method of identifying them. Although that begs the question of why they couldn't just have a barcode on their face or something, but now I'm getting off of my own topic, .

 

[Iron Lightning]

are you same guy who made that "Real or anime" thread?

Nope, that was Christian Fernandez.

seriously people, go human, i know we're nerds but lets not let people think that.

though im not sure if i should talk, i have (non-sexual) interest in centaurs

You know you could totally make it a centaur.

good point, but i'm going to rely on the grey zebra which has the same number of chromosomes as humans, and then cross breeding other bipedal species.....then without warning, I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH MY LOYAL CENTAUR FOLLOWERS!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

(wow i have problems)

I... uh... don't know how to respond to this post other than to say that you should totally illustrate this concept as a desktop wallpaper image. That would be freakin' sweet.

 

[Jegsimmons]

are you same guy who made that "Real or anime" thread?

Nope, that was Christian Fernandez.

seriously people, go human, i know we're nerds but lets not let people think that.

though im not sure if i should talk, i have (non-sexual) interest in centaurs

You know you could totally make it a centaur.

good point, but i'm going to rely on the grey zebra which has the same number of chromosomes as humans, and then cross breeding other bipedal species.....then without warning, I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH MY LOYAL CENTAUR FOLLOWERS!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

(wow i have problems)

I... uh... don't know how to respond to this post other than to say that you should totally illustrate this concept as a desktop wallpaper image. That would be freakin' sweet.

funny you mention that...i do have a lowly webcomic i work on (every now and then) and one character is a centaur....so...i actually could do something like that.
.....now that i read this, i almost feel ashamed....almost.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Discounting any moral or simple preference real women still come out miles ahead. The only positive to an android is that it's programmable. It is also the biggest downside. A "perfect" match is impossible to program because relationships require conflict on some level, without conflict there is no compromise, which is the basis of a good relationship. It teaches trust, and lets one work with their partner on more than one emotional level.

Just like in that odd anime girl thread, you can beat a real woman.

 

[JoJo]

Well for a start I can't see how an android could produce offspring, so that'd be a big no-no as I want children in the future, and even if it could, it would just feel... wrong. There's no better word to put than "wrong" for how I'd feel paired up with a "perfect" machine, however like a human it behaves.