More robots fighting – be sure to watch this full screen.
World War was created by Vincent Chai for his final degree project whilst studying 3D Animation at the University Of Hertfordshire.
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Here’s an excerpt from an Scientific American interview with Levy:
And, as you mention in Love and Sex with Robots, brothels in Japan and South Korea already offer sex with dolls for the same rates they would charge for human prostitutes. So in studying sex with prostitutes, you figured you might begin to understand what the thinking behind sex with robots would be.
I started analyzing the psychology of clients of prostitutes. One of the most common reasons people pay for sex was that people wanted variety in sex partners. And with robots, you could have a blonde robot today or a brunette or a redhead. Or people want different sexual experiences. Or they don’t want to commit to a relationship, but just to have a sexual relationship bound in time. All those reasons that people want to have sex with prostitutes could also apply to sex with robots.But sex with robots won’t just be a guy thing?
When I started, the research was almost entirely on male clients, but the number of women who pay for sex is on the increase, although there’s not much published on the subject. That shows both sexes are interested and willing and desirous to get sex they paid for. Heidi Fleiss is proposing to open a brothel in Nevada where all the sex workers are male and the clients are female. You already have something similar in Spain.If people fall in love with robots, aren’t they just falling in love with an algorithm?
It’s not that people will fall in love with an algorithm, but that people will fall in love with a convincing simulation of a human being, and convincing simulations can have a remarkable effect on people.When I was 10, I was in Madame Tussauds waxworks in London with my aunt. I wanted to find someone to get to some part of the exhibition and I saw someone, and it didn’t dawn on me for a few seconds that that person was a waxwork. It had a profound effect on me—that not everything is as it seems, and that simulations can be very convincing. And that was just a simple waxwork.
And if you or others could be taken in just by a wax figure, even for a moment, imagine what a realistic robotic simulation of a person would do. But if people are aware that a robot’s just electronics, won’t that be an obstacle to true love?
By 40 or 50 years, everyone of a marriageable age will have grown up with electronics all around them at home, and not see them as abnormal. People who grow up with all sorts of electronic gizmos will find android robots to be fairly normal as friends, partners, lovers.
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This dude is pretty creepy but I think he might be right. Dudes in Japan are already spending fortune on girlfriend dolls. It won’t be long before the dolls are talking and doing other stuff.
If you haven’t seen Lars and the Real Girl, it gets into some of these issues of intimacy and is a movie I’d highly recommend.
The easter colors are kinda weird but the sound effects and visuals are dope:
You can now download a plugin to make yourself look like Shephard Fairey’s Obama portrait in real time:
My mother and I went to Walmart on Black Friday a few years back and I swore I’d never be part of the American cultural event ever again.
Black Friday represents why America has really started to suck.
I can remember horror stories of people getting injured as huge crowds rush around on pasts Black Fridays. Today people are getting trampled at Walmart, shot at Toys R Us.
You couldn’t say shopping on Black Friday is statistically hazardous for your health due to the above examples, but when you look at the economic conditions that buying too much shit have wrought and the kinds of companies that have risen against the backdrop of American Capitalism…
In a country where people sleep overnight in their cars to be first in line at Walmart but have trouble getting to the ballots to vote, Black Friday is a scary index of American priorities and civic engagement…
I’d argue that our consumer practices – not voting – have become our political engagement. We support the political/economic structures through what vehicle we buy, how much gas we consume, what kinds of food we eat, and where we shop.
Not who we vote for.
In any event, I’ve long thought that shopping is hazardous – if not for our immediate safety – then for the indirect economic and political structures we passively buttress through our consumption.
The one that starts in at a minute is a trip. Kind of registers as a mix between industrial electronic music w/ like tabla type beat underneath.
