It is especially shitty when one of these guys is doing better than the dumpee financially/professionally. As that dumpee, it is humiliating. He was an awful person (y’all have read about him here before if you follow me) who was utterly full of himself and I can’t even enjoy the “Someday they won’t even know your…

oooh. I have one of those. I havn’t responded in years but still get things like, “I just wanted to say I hope you’re well and that I’ve been thinking of you. If ever you want to try the whole very occasional friendship, I’d really like that.”

WTF is a ‘very occasional friendship’?

And btw, it doesn’t matter what the…

I just moved past “shank him immediately” territory and landed in “if I ever see him, ignore him like he doesn’t exist” territory with the guy who relentlessly cheated on me a decade ago. Ignore him territory* is so much more peaceful. I hope you’re able to join me here one day.

The Reverse Nanny McFee of shitty boyfriends. Nowhere to be found when you want them, can’t get rid of them when you never want to see their faces again.

‘did i really hurt you that bad that you don’t even want to be my friend?’

Years ago this controlling jerk dumped me...I was devastated...a couple years later, one of those I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED!! — moments happened: I was looking fabulous, outside having lunch on a sunny day with my best friend...I had just bought my own condo, had an awesome new job...and who walks by but…

gurl I hear u.

I know right? I’m always impressed by people who can be civil about break ups. I found out last night that my first boyfriend (we broke up 5 years ago) is getting married and did I start screaming in a bar? Maybe. Am I fantasizing about lighting them both on fire? Perhaps.

Wait, though, these dolls can’t suddenly come to life no matter who’s running them. It’s not like the hackers can imbue them with independent movement, or even puppet them, really. They aren’t built that way.

I wasn’t as clear in that comment as it was the second one of its kind on the page, but an explicit aspect of the fantasy is shoving it in the ex’s face that you are having sex with her effigy. That’s where it crosses the line into harassment. If no one else knew about the doll looking like their ex, the fantasy goes…

We’re likely a long way from getting there, but I can see a market for genuine AI sexbots. There are going to be customers who want what they perceive to be the “real thing” and be willing to pay for it. But of course, you’d have to pair that AI with behavioral constraints for the reasons you mention.

I don’t think it’s realistic to suppose that sex robots would be programmed to be genuinely intelligent - it’d be far cheaper and easier to give them a reasonably convincing facsimile of intelligence, and if you’re a company manufacturing them, you would want your products to reliably do what you designed and built…

Japan! I cannot remember where I saw it, but I did recently see a documentary or read an article on the (tiny, I’m sure) phenomenon in Japan of men really interacting with these dolls as a girlfriend - taking her out for walks, buying her clothes, etc. one middle-aged guy was even married, and it seemed his wife and…

If sexbots gain AI, which they will at some point, do we need to start worrying about consent issues?

Dude, what’s wrong with your hand? Nobody “needs” to jerk off with a $20,000 sex doll.

Or, conversely, they buy into the idea that every man deserves a sexual partner...but their opinions of women drive them all away.

I hope you’re right.

It’s been going since 1960.

I’m sorry for his loss.

My mom will freak out when she reads this and remind me incidents like this are why she still “forbids” me from going to music concerts. Keep in mind, I’m a 40-something adult.