As some of you may know, I travel by continua device to the Marvel Universe once a month so I can kick Tony Stark in the nuts. No special reason; he just pisses me off. Anyway, on my last trip I came into possession of 524,288 Life Model Decoys. For those not in the know, these are extremely realistic androids, originally invented for the use of people who were frequent targets of assassination attempts; they’d decoy assassins, you see.
But whoever constructed these LMDs had something else in mind. They’re anatomically correct, for one thing, and for another are visually, aurally, tactically, olfactorially, and whatever-the-adjective-for-taste-is-ly indistinguishable from humans. (Well, I’m sure Matt Murdock could tell the difference, but not folks with ordinary sensoriums). Their physical appearance can be altered at the user’s whim, and each is programmed in several hundred varieties of, shall we say, carnal pleasuring; and of course they’re hardwired with Asimov’s Three Laws. Each unit’s memory can be wiped up to 2 billion times without loss of storage capacity; alternatively, they can be set so as to remember any, ah, incident, or series thereof, with perfect accuracy but never to speak about it to anyone who wasn’t present when it happened.
They are, in short, perfect hookerbots. I was thinking of renting the LMDs out as same, but I thought I’d check with you guys to see if there were any philosophical, ethical, moral, or practical objections first.
Is there any chance that they are secretly or may spontaneously become sentient, only to rise up against their oppressors and make us clean their toilets with our tongues?
I object to your plan. If they are androids capable of deceiving anyone but Matt Murdock, I would consider them sufficiently advanced that you should treat them with respect. And that includes not using them as sex slaves.
This might be the missing piece of the puzzle! I recently posted on another forum cncerned with international business (one of my forte’s) about Japan’s government sending out sexy kawaii young pop star girls as diplomatic representatives.
I am all for Japan looking for a competitive advantage in the information economy with a quickly aging population that needs to be supported by cuties and their brothers. In my haste to make this point, which others found undignified, I neglected to take into account the research into just the sort of robots you are describing.
Of course the goal is to sell you a version of the girl they got you drooling over for yourself!
The fact that they can prove anyone but Matt Murdock proves that they shells are really good. It says nothing about their minds or like thereof.
Matt wouldn’t be fooled for a second by Voyager’s HoloDoc, but the latter was certainly a person. (I know Janeway seemed to think otherwise, but, really, isn’t her opinion on any given subject actully a support for the opposite side?)
Skald–certain “families” will go out of their minds when they hear of this, and might have several of their hulking associates assisst you in taking a long ride in the country. A one way ride.