The weird thing with this is, you can get extremely violent, near pornographic movies at Walmart. I have some independent horror film packs I picked up there, and while I'm not easily shocked, I was almost shocked that Walmart carried them. I watched the entire disgusting things...twice.

"We will have a partner that is capable of their own wants and desires"

Not to be insulting, but this is literally the worst idea ever.

Suggest you read up on paperclip maximizers to see why...

Aliens are actually much less threatening than AIs, because we can understand them better. Our goals are much more similar--our value functions seek to maximize chances of successful reproduction, meaning we seek to mate (or whatever) and gather resources to maximize the chances of reproduction for our descendants. An AI could want to do any number of things seemingly tangential to our lives, but in the end would consume all the resources available, including the atoms in our bodies. That is, they are TRULY alien, thinking and acting in ways that simply don't pop up on our radar as being in the realm of possibility.

Actually, that would be a good application. Give rapists, sadists, and kiddie fiddlers a harmless outlet for their sexuality. Robots can be programmed to behave in any way they like, to up the realism. This would greatly reduce the amount of violence outside of the bedroom.

Traditional English cooking is pretty bad, but their breakfasts are hard to beat.

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

It's like you never saw the health video in high school.

Has already been overcome in CGI, only a decade after the horror of the Final Fantasy movie. Presumably, ten years after the first horrific sexbot, we'll have them well on our side of the valley.

A sex robot is a replacement for prostitutes and porn, not relationships. Only with strong AI and artificial wombs can they replace relationships.

No, that is a standard feature of humanity. You included.

Though that guy is an idiot, and his thinking is anti-free market (which you don't seem to understand).

You can turn genes on and off with diet and lifestyle. Check out the field of epigenetics. Genes are influencers, but your fate is not written in stone because of them.

See: http://www.livescience.com/418...

The types of bacteria in your gut today may be different tomorrow, depending on what kinds of food you eat, a new study suggests.

Genes can be turned on and off depending on diet and lifestyle. Not only that, but the types of foods you eat can influence your bacteria:

The types of bacteria in your gut today may be different tomorrow, depending on what kinds of food you eat, a new study suggests.

The study also adds evidence to the idea that human diets — acting through the gut bacteria — influence the risk of certain diseases

http://www.livescience.com/418...

We bring a lot of misery on ourselves, but it's human nature to attempt to blame someone (or something) else.

I disagree, at least here in Texas. If you actually talk to people, a very large percentage of people have a very clear idea of libertarianism in their heads. That isn't how they vote, though.

You underestimate people and likely AIs. A properly programmed strong AI will seek to maximize the fulfillment of human values, including resurrecting loved ones, or just as many people as possible (satisfies people like me), and will likely just want to satisfy the values of those who preserved themselves--ie they clearly valued life.

All you have to do is survive until it happens.

The solution is to be alive and awake as each neuron is destroyed and replaced by emulated neurons. This way, no copy can be made, and your experience is continuous.

Yeah. I'm a cable cutter w/ Amazon Prime and I'm quite happy with the video content. I don't watch much TV, but when I do I enjoy the commercial free content, even if it is a bit older. If you never watched it, it's all new to you.

Commercials are like cigarettes. Every one you watch takes five minutes off the end of your life. Of course, just sitting and watching TV does that, too, I'm just saying.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alter...

Gotta go for a walk now. :)

Search engines that do not filter will be ruled drm circumvention devices. Just like when Windows and Apple finally get DRM nailed down and Linux doesn't implement it. Circumvention devices.