http://www.john-wright.net/2007/10/16/sex-with-robots/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sex-with-robots Not Facebook Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.john-wright.net/2007/10/16/sex-with-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-965 John Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:05:38 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2007/10/16/sex-with-robots/#comment-965 Greg- Thanks for that! This is a topic Nick Bostrom may have been interested in, as a transhumanist. The far future (as presented in science fiction like Spielberg's A.I. maybe) might actually be a world populated by silicon-based rather than carbon-based lifeforms. In that case the only reason for sex would be a form of adherence to the standards us humans passed along. Greg- Thanks for that! This is a topic Nick Bostrom may have been interested in, as a transhumanist. The far future (as presented in science fiction like Spielberg’s A.I. maybe) might actually be a world populated by silicon-based rather than carbon-based lifeforms. In that case the only reason for sex would be a form of adherence to the standards us humans passed along.

]]> http://www.john-wright.net/2007/10/16/sex-with-robots/comment-page-1/#comment-964 Greg Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:45:11 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2007/10/16/sex-with-robots/#comment-964 John, as a reader of Wired I'm surprised you didn't catch this one, the Sex Life of Robots video here.... http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2007/10/video_robotsex John, as a reader of Wired I’m surprised you didn’t catch this one, the Sex Life of Robots video here…. http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2007/10/video_robotsex

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