Re:An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
by 8fhdkjw039hd on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:16AM
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The strange thing about super-stimuli is it looks very ridiculous when animals fall for it; there is the funny example of a turkey trying to mate with a red balloon on a stick. But it is the nature of super-stimuli that they will not seem ridiculous when we fall for them, because the very features we use to gauge authenticity are what will be simulated. And so we will get sort of hollow simulacrum that emphasize these features and lack everything else.
Re:An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
by numpad0 on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:51AM
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Hollow simulacrum that simulate (only) the very features we recognize... I’m feeling like Live2D VTubers fits better into that description than hyperrealistic VR representations.
Re:An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
by saagarjha on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:38AM
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People try to mate with a hole in a wall, too. It’s not even considered that ridiculous.
Re:An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
by bitwize on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:02PM
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> I'm also surprised something like this hasn't come out of Japan already
Gatebox doesn't count?
Re:An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
by blaser-waffle on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:33PM
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Don't Date Robots!
I'm also surprised something like this hasn't come out of Japan already, but then again Japan doesn't have as large of a gender imbalance as China does due to the One Child Policy.
On an unrelated note, this also reminds me of the Futurama episode where people start downloading celebrity personalities into robots, and a sex education video scared teens into saying that "robo-sexual" relationships were shunned and did not advance the human race.