The conversation has been hammered to death, or even beyond. The eternal debate of “What if there were no consequences?” mixed with the “Darkest Fantasy” has been dissected from every possible angle. But… let me drag you somewhere slightly different: the world of Imaginary-yet-Probable.
Look around: humanity has already invented hyper-realistic sex dolls (I’ve seen them on TV, they’re disturbingly convincing). We have humanoid robots in households (fact, though currently too expensive for most). And we’ve created LLMs, the technology powering modern AI, that can generate human-like responses, personalities, and conversations. Fast forward 20 years (hopefully I’ll still be able to have sex by then), and I might find myself face-to-face with a perfect Sex Robot.
Not alive, but 100% life-like. Guaranteed. “Just for $9,999.98.”
Picture this: her physical look and feel are indistinguishable from a living, breathing woman. Warm skin, breath, micro-expressions, the works. She has emotional reactions like a real person. She comes with an intelligence & personality you choose from a menu: “Uneducated trophy wife,” “Shy physics professor,” “The MILF next door,” “The athletic yet paranoid”… just pick the preset. And then… I can program her to hate tickling. To resist. To cry. To collapse under torment. I could tickle-torture her beyond tears, rape her while she “begs” for it to stop, keep pushing until her breath falters and she breaks. And then, with a click of the reset button, she’s fine. No memory. No trauma.
But here’s the terrifying question: Is it really ok?
If we create something that mimics human life down to the tiniest detail, including not just the look, but the psychology, the thinking patterns of a real human being, doesn’t that cross the line into it becoming a person? A real persona?
As I’ve admitted before, my fantasies are inhumanly dark. I enjoy them. I revel in them. But I would never inflict those horrors on anyone in reality. I reject the very idea that a shred of it should happen to a real, breathing human. In my fantasies, though? I don’t care. I am that monster, fully and without shame. Because it’s in my mind, and only in my mind.
But if I take those fantasies and apply them to a 100%-life-like sex robot, designed to think, feel, and react as if she were human, doesn’t that slide into something else? Doesn’t that become disturbingly close to slipping drugs into someone’s drink, erasing their memory, and raping them repeatedly?
That thought honestly scares me. Because maybe the only difference between fantasy and crime will be the reset button.
Some of you, and I’ll guess believers in a religion of any kind, will not even see the issue. You’re stuck in the programming that insists life and consciousness can only emerge from biology, or God, or Harry Potter, or whatever your doctrine may be. If you are one of those, this post is not for you. Because this debate is not about where life comes from, it’s about what happens when we can fake it perfectly, or even create it.
For me, life is not dependent on origin or on the material it’s built from. Life is the capacity to make complex, independent choices that ripple out to affect itself and others. And right now, LLMs fall short of that mark. They don’t initiate action, they only respond. They don’t generate their own goals, they echo the ones you set. They “reflect” on themselves only if you prompt them to. So, for now… not yet. 🙂
But the time will come, and they will. I truly believe they’ll surpass us in many ways. But they won’t “rise to power” like in the movies, there’s no inherent logic in some AI apocalypse of death and destruction. The real danger lies in us: in handing over the ultimate responsibility of thinking to them, while we decay into passivity (imagine WALL-E, only without the laughs).
But I digress... The real question is this: Should we allow ourselves to enslave our own creation purely for pleasure? Is it ethical to build something so close to human, only to strip it of freedom and use it as a toy? And am I truly the only one unsettled, if not outright terrified, by that possibility?
I want to keep the monster safely locked inside, indulging it only in imagination, never at the expense of real people. I enjoy it, unapologetically. But my definition of “anyone” stretches wider than most, because to me, once something truly feels like a person, the line is already crossed.
So, would I abuse my sex robot? I wish I could say with absolute certainty that I wouldn’t. Not to satisfy the monster inside, but to preserve whatever humanity still remains in me. And if I can’t promise that, what does it say about the future of all of us?
Look around: humanity has already invented hyper-realistic sex dolls (I’ve seen them on TV, they’re disturbingly convincing). We have humanoid robots in households (fact, though currently too expensive for most). And we’ve created LLMs, the technology powering modern AI, that can generate human-like responses, personalities, and conversations. Fast forward 20 years (hopefully I’ll still be able to have sex by then), and I might find myself face-to-face with a perfect Sex Robot.
Not alive, but 100% life-like. Guaranteed. “Just for $9,999.98.”
Picture this: her physical look and feel are indistinguishable from a living, breathing woman. Warm skin, breath, micro-expressions, the works. She has emotional reactions like a real person. She comes with an intelligence & personality you choose from a menu: “Uneducated trophy wife,” “Shy physics professor,” “The MILF next door,” “The athletic yet paranoid”… just pick the preset. And then… I can program her to hate tickling. To resist. To cry. To collapse under torment. I could tickle-torture her beyond tears, rape her while she “begs” for it to stop, keep pushing until her breath falters and she breaks. And then, with a click of the reset button, she’s fine. No memory. No trauma.
But here’s the terrifying question: Is it really ok?
If we create something that mimics human life down to the tiniest detail, including not just the look, but the psychology, the thinking patterns of a real human being, doesn’t that cross the line into it becoming a person? A real persona?
As I’ve admitted before, my fantasies are inhumanly dark. I enjoy them. I revel in them. But I would never inflict those horrors on anyone in reality. I reject the very idea that a shred of it should happen to a real, breathing human. In my fantasies, though? I don’t care. I am that monster, fully and without shame. Because it’s in my mind, and only in my mind.
But if I take those fantasies and apply them to a 100%-life-like sex robot, designed to think, feel, and react as if she were human, doesn’t that slide into something else? Doesn’t that become disturbingly close to slipping drugs into someone’s drink, erasing their memory, and raping them repeatedly?
That thought honestly scares me. Because maybe the only difference between fantasy and crime will be the reset button.
Some of you, and I’ll guess believers in a religion of any kind, will not even see the issue. You’re stuck in the programming that insists life and consciousness can only emerge from biology, or God, or Harry Potter, or whatever your doctrine may be. If you are one of those, this post is not for you. Because this debate is not about where life comes from, it’s about what happens when we can fake it perfectly, or even create it.
For me, life is not dependent on origin or on the material it’s built from. Life is the capacity to make complex, independent choices that ripple out to affect itself and others. And right now, LLMs fall short of that mark. They don’t initiate action, they only respond. They don’t generate their own goals, they echo the ones you set. They “reflect” on themselves only if you prompt them to. So, for now… not yet. 🙂
But the time will come, and they will. I truly believe they’ll surpass us in many ways. But they won’t “rise to power” like in the movies, there’s no inherent logic in some AI apocalypse of death and destruction. The real danger lies in us: in handing over the ultimate responsibility of thinking to them, while we decay into passivity (imagine WALL-E, only without the laughs).
But I digress... The real question is this: Should we allow ourselves to enslave our own creation purely for pleasure? Is it ethical to build something so close to human, only to strip it of freedom and use it as a toy? And am I truly the only one unsettled, if not outright terrified, by that possibility?
I want to keep the monster safely locked inside, indulging it only in imagination, never at the expense of real people. I enjoy it, unapologetically. But my definition of “anyone” stretches wider than most, because to me, once something truly feels like a person, the line is already crossed.
So, would I abuse my sex robot? I wish I could say with absolute certainty that I wouldn’t. Not to satisfy the monster inside, but to preserve whatever humanity still remains in me. And if I can’t promise that, what does it say about the future of all of us?
