When the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama, primarily famous for his partly misguided “end of history” theory (the idea that free market capitalism and liberal democracy will dominate the entire world in the not too distant future), took his next step as an intellectual, he wrote Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.
One and a half decade later, and one of the least liberal-democratic countries on earth, Saudi Arabia, has made an eerie human-like robot, similar to one of the artificial creatures in last year’s Blade Runner 2049, into a citizen of its Salafi-based kingdom.
Like its regional neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia mixes its Wahhabi-Islamic doctrine with lavish Western consumerism and technological fetishism. The Saudi oligarchs, with billions of dollar from oil revenues in their bank accounts, compete with the Chinese and Americans in a neverending dick-measuring futuristic sci-tech contest. Authoritarian regimes have the advantage that they don’t need any kind of democratic approval from the public, unlike the US.
In this case, that implies that if Saudi royalties are not keen on shitting on Instawhores for the moment, they can just go on with the latest AI project, or steal the ideas from the West or China in that respect.
The humanoid robot Sophia was created by the Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, which has ties to AI developers, including Google’s parent company Alphabet. Thus “she” may be regarded as much of a Western as a Chinese product.
Sophia made her introduction in 2015, at the South by Southwest conferences in Austin, Texas. Since then the feminine robot has made her deserve her name (Sophia = wisdom) in various TV-broadcasted interviews. Reporters and the audiences have been impressed by her sharp answers, and indeed she appears more intelligent than the average Western female, if that even say something these days.
What this might mean
If genetic engineering and other forms of complex systems science become too advanced, that would seriously challenge our ideas of what a human being is and what individual rights mean. Will they become obsolete? Or would the elites still draw a sharp line between real humans and mere human-akin phenomena? Will SJWs fight for robotic women vis-a-vis toxic masculine males? Will the robot be stoned if she does something that her Saudi masters have not approved of? Will Saudi men replace one of their wives with a slender femmachine? And if I were an Instagram celeb I would seriously consider to change career direction any time soon.
I don’t have any definite answers to these questions for the time being, but it is a bit unexpected that Saudi Arabia of all rich countries have made this kind of move. Still it should be seen in the light of the recent promise made by Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who asserted that Saudi Arabia will become more modern and moderate and steer away from Wahhabism.
Perhaps giving women the right do drive, a change that will take effect in June 2018, was just a tiny step in an accelerating liberal direction, which implies that the economic power and all the toys that it grants the rich are always more important than obsolete cultural models. Making Sophia into a “citizen” is indeed a more peculiar such.
Instead of focusing on conflicts and polarization, the clash of civilizations theory that Samuel Huntington suggested back in 1996 dictates that we’ll see a process of homogenization. All of the world’s regional powers are not necessarily friends, but they are often cooperating competitors more than enemies.
If Washington, Beijing, and Riyadh can benefit from advanced technology, that can simultaneously entertain themselves and hypnotize the masses in a high-tech future, they will less likely start a war with each other. Granting a citizenship to a robot might be a symbolic indicator of the route to such a future. A more dystopic development would be if the AI robots could actually start to out-smart the elites or be used in advanced technological warfare.
We live in interesting times, to paraphrase the ominous expression.
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They can push for sexbots all they want, but fucking a machine will never be as psychologically pleasing as dicking a real woman. At best this is soft eugenics to lure away the gammas and omegas from attempting reproduction.
This may be an attempt to calm the masses as we move to full 80:20 casual relationship society. Most of the desire for sexual relationships is the ego its not about the actual physical. They will never take over as its about the validation it gives you as a man as much as anything. A good life like female would cost many thousands and be a huge storage issue. This is a dead end.
Something that is genuinely life like would be far more complex than anything we are even close to making let alone a life like human female.
Its true we are already in a society where the stupid breed most and rapidly moving to a point where unless we can augment ourselves we will not maintain modern cohesive societies anywhere in the west.
When it can produce you a son I’ll have a look
Surrogacy and sex selection can produce you a son. Buy an egg from a smart, healthy, young HB10 Eastern Euro chick and go to places like India/Philippines and rent a womb. You are done. Then get a sex bot and get on with life, dating chicks for fun. I hear the cost is around $150K max. With Eastern Euro/India combo it may be cheaper. If they don’t ban this under feminist pressure, then just freeze your sperm when you are young and healthy, wait until you are 40+ and financially settled then do it.
It may be expensive now, but so was a cell phone in 1984 to the price tag of $4,000. I can go to Wal Green today and get a cell phone for 29.99 that does a hell of a lot more than a cell phone did in 1984. Today, that $4,000 dollar phone wouldn’t be worth the receipt paper it came with. Likewise with sex dolls. It’s conceivable that a sex doll indistinguishable from your favorite porn actress will be 29.99 in 30 years.
You’re missing the point. When sexbots steal the attention away from all the beta’s who were incels anyway, then all women will be left with is the alpha fucks who won’t provide for them. Its potentially a huge blow to feminism.
Dude it cannot take the hole away from needing the companionship. Who wants to sit alone at night in an empty home?
There are alternatives to companionship, but the betas already don’t get that from women anyway.
but a lot of men do that, with only the companionship of a computer.
The government will provide for the women. It isn’t beta’s who are the problem, welfare is the problem. What women appear to want is enough money to live on their own with a house full of cats.
John, women are wholly dependent on beta bucks to take care of them once they hit a wall. The beta bucks only do what they do because they want sex, if you give them sex with the sexbots (think of the Futurama episode) then they will have no incentive to supplicate towards women anymore. This is a clear threat to women, and its no coincidence that feminists are already writing articles about how sexist sex bots are or Anita Sarkeesian whining about the new Blade Runner film for having holographic girlfriends.
So much this. Feminists are losing their sh*t over stuff like this because the “alternatives” take the aces out of their sleeves.
No, there will just be, literal harems, again. Alphas will have ALL of the women, at once.
When my dad was my age in the late 1980’s, early 1990’s it was the thinking that only weird, middle aged guys that couldn’t get a woman to save their lives watched porn. Today, it’s mainstream and instantly accessible and even men like athletes who have lots of female groupies admit to watching porn and make no secret of it. Even women watch porn today. So that kind of takes away the stigma of watching it for the everyday, average guy. He doesn’t need to think of himself as a weirdo for watching it.
I think the same will eventually become of sex dolls. Today, especially here in the U.S. But as it becomes more common, I suspect that it will lose it’s stigma. Today, a guy who owns and sleeps with a sex doll would be looked at as a weirdo. As it becomes more mainstream, it won’t be unusual for a teenage boy to sleep with a sex doll to “lose his virginity” and not be secretive about it.
The slippery slope is real.
With (((porn))) so mainstream now for both sexes it must be messing up peoples perceptions of sex and mental health.
the guy who hasnt had a bad day yet, will have it the day his doll shorts out while he is balls deep in her throat and cackling whoremary “gags” and his junk gets bit off.
You mean like the chicken did to that redneck in Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead? 🙂
It’s a step up from goat fucking. Gotta give ’em that.
I agree. However, sexbots are definitely going to replace sex workers in the near future. Including nude/alt/fetish models. Bad news for narcissists alright(but that’s a good thing actually).
Lmao.. quantum computers are being prototyped as we speak and we are worrying about a fleshlight that can spout canned lines like a fucking cabbagepatch doll
A curvy fleshlight, mind you.
Do exploding sexbots go to Silicon Heaven? This is Saudi Barbaria we’re talking about here: their bots are likely to have a detonator instead of a electro-clitoris
Loving the Red Dwarf reference.
If they’re anything like Achmed the dead terrorist, they will.
The desert ninjas that can drive now don’t look much better generally. I wonder if this robot has been fucked already
Only in the ePooper.
@Jack Smith
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Or you could just move out of the west. It’s only western women that are the problem.
I wonder what the pussy hatters have to say about their Muzzie pets exploiting mechanical women.
Does she have to cover up?
is she circumzised?
The technology will prevail upon human soul. That’s when the bible prophecy comes true. The world will witness the Antichrist.
Technology, in all likelihood by the end of this century will end humanity as we know it. Very biblical indeed. A very smart guy by the name of Nick Bostrum has estimated the probability of human extinction by century’s end at 20+%. Which is incredibly high. Even if we dodge that 20%, in all likelihood we may end up in a horrible dystopia. The post-modern, gender dysphoric, globo-homo feminism is probably the beginning of that dytopia.
I’ve heard some Islamic Preacher from Trinidad & Tobago speaking in England how the Anti-Christ will have no soul.
Reverends have told me that the Anti-Christ will likely be a machine or computer.
We are surely living in the Last Days. I’m not sure why women have gone against their natural order to become feminists, lesbians and teacher pedophiles….I’m afraid God will send fire and brimstone once he gets angry enough at the perversion at this earth.
It’s time to REPENT of your sins, and listen to Jesus, not that robotic creature.
Good Morning Britain….lets PLAY pretend shall we? That this “robot” has personality. I mean that is a crazy as playing let pretend Trannies and the rest of the s3xually mentally ill people are all NORMAL…….
No, your state of “normal” is not going to erase or supplant actual reality, no matter how much you “pretend” that this is really bad D CLASS stage acting for ad dollars.
When these soy boys finally get a robot (Bishop) to be as realistic as the acting in the Aliens movies, then worry, but these ersatz steam engine fakes blabbing about citizenship and their “rights” to public microphones is silly beyond measure. Pretty soon we will need citizenship for every single turd I drop because it came from a person, built by a person…. People have taken a flying leap of the stupid cliff. Naked bipedal lemmings.
Vote dilution. Giving AI the right to citizenship (ergo right to vote) is worse than women having the right to vote.
Hmmm, end of the world is near
The Saudis are purported Islamic followers but they are doing everything according to their Islamic end times:
1. Desert Arabs building tall skyscrapers (50 years ago Dubai was a fucking desert!).
2. The Dajjal (Islamic Antichrist) will have no soul (This is likely a computer or robot).
3. Arabs haveing so much money that they will not know what to do with it (like that Saudi prince spending over $300 million on a painting in Europe).
If this is not some sort of hoax then it is the most disturbing thing I have seen in some time now.
There has been plenty of talk about “sexbots” here, but there is also the possibility of virtual reality. If anyone can find a way to trigger the necessary senses via VR, then even robots won’t be needed- just the equivalent of a video game device.
Does anyone here remember that 1990s episode of “Married…With Children” where Bud Bundy got ahold of such a device, and how he was bragging about how men would not need women for the one thing modern women can still offer? His stupid sister suddenly became VERY competent when she sabotaged the device because she knew it was true. Mind you, this was on a sitcom back in the 1990s. Today it is eerie in how prescient it was.
Red Herring. It’s literally a ventriloquist dummy.
They’re elites and it’s not a real robot and people are gullible.
Statements like “appears more intelligent than the average Western female, if that even say something these days” would sound a lot less asinine if there weren’t so many fucking grammatical errors in the article. Just saying.
More like one, spergbot.
More *than* one you mean, and WTF is a “spergbot”? Anyhow I’m happy to donate my time and do some proofreading for this site.
I am not sure if you are fit for the task. ROK is largely written in a plain/casual style and allows for instance more chatty ing-forms and minor errors and typos.
Further, sometimes a grammar mistake is not a real. If some person writes: “…than other” and leaves out the s or the commonly used people, then it is not wrong since the word people is implied. It’s called an ellipsis.
The Criminal Sauds are building a tech city outside of Riyadh.
It is part of the Satanic Levant.
The IOT will be run from Arabia-Israel.
Sofia is the digital incarnation of ISIS.
Robotics will first find you, co-opt your very life, then replace your soul.
Everyone reading this in English will die soon because of this tech and that place.
This robot could end the use of females and finally crush the feminist cunts and there ace In the sleeve and all the mgtows will buy this robot.
Terminator.
I could imagine this. A room full of club girls all going off at once. Then when he is tired of his midget stock he could actually have a decent conversation and know he is not bending society with this invention of the educated woman.
I’m skeptical about this Female robot. Much of her speech is extremely predictable and sounds scripted. Also, robots these days are too damn human like. What ever happened to Cylons???
That said, sexbots will always be a niche market. Because no matter how human like they might be, even if they are eventually sentient, knowing in your mind that this is a machine will always put them into the “uncanny valley” for the majority of humans.
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Par for the course. The Saudis have zero respect for human life, so it stands to reason that they’d give the same respect to a glorified tape recorder that they would to the millions of people they rule over.
As for sexbots. Seriously. Enough with the @#[email protected]# sexbots already. Women are designed to be ruled. They crave it, they want it, if you won’t give it to them then they’ll vote to import swarms of brutal rape-prone migrants, because that is how desperate they are for male dominance. The only thing you need to bring to the table is conviction and integrity.
Yes integrity. That quality where one puts principle over the never ending quest for convenience. Our ancestors would spit on us in disgust if they saw how cravenly we were acting.