# Anybody have any objections to me opening a hookerbot emporium? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 7, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255 "2009-07-07T21:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/41 "2009-07-09T01:07:43Z")
> [@Winsling](#): > > Sorry for the hijack, but I’m not sure you can handwave this away. On the one hand, you have a being that can pass a Turing Test, and is pleading with you that it has the same hopes and dreams that you do - that sentencing it to a life of sexual slavery is grossly immoral. After all, if it couldn’t talk philosophy, it couldn’t imitate a person, right? Perhaps this conversation can only happen after the image is downloaded, and she’s using the same speech the base source would give, but at some point this conversation is possible. > > On the other, you have a greasy Poindexter, breathing hard and saying, “Uh… I took out the sapient chip. No moral concerns what-so-ever. Nope nope nope. I need to go… run some tests now. Yeah. I call this one Trudy.” > > When it comes to slavery, I gotta err on the side of caution. > > Again, my apologies for the hijack. All those “reasons” and “logic” are all well and good, but is a lost cause, we want our sexbots NOW ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/42 "2009-07-09T01:15:15Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > we want our sexbots NOW You’ll be sorry. I have it on good authority they do ot wash your paint brushes afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/43 "2009-07-09T02:01:06Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You’ll be sorry. I have it on good authority they do ot wash your paint brushes afterward. Ah, oh :(, carry on them. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/44 "2009-07-09T02:17:38Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Ah, oh :(, carry on them. Your Ralph Kramden like scheme is going _down,_ Skald. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/45 "2009-07-09T04:36:51Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > 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. Funny you should say that. The first thing I thought of was this story I read in sci-fi porn collection (the name of which escapes me as does the name of the collection :() about the future in which robots are consider preferable to mere women and are far more exspensive. So a mere paints herself blue (make perfect sense if it’s desirable to not be human) attaches leads to her head (see above) and makes a living _pretending_ to be a robot. There are enough humans willing to be sex slaves. If we can make ones that want something…or ones that can want to be a sex slave, well why not? ---
**Author:** ![Animastryfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Animastryfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Animastryfe)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/46 "2009-07-09T05:04:13Z")
You must give Dopers discounts. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/47 "2009-07-09T05:18:07Z")
> [@Animastryfe](#): > > You must give Dopers discounts. That is all. He’d go out of business then. ---
**Author:** ![Animastryfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Animastryfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Animastryfe)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/48 "2009-07-09T05:27:11Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > He’d go out of business then. He has half a million of them. There are plenty for others. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/49 "2009-07-09T10:17:50Z")
Just to say that this theme has been explored quite extensively by [Clifford Pickover](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Drugs-Einstein-Elves-Transcendence/dp/1890572179) in several of his fiction and non-fiction works. He addresses all sorts of moral and ethical dilemmas in a very insightful way. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/50 "2009-07-09T12:59:05Z")
Now, would my money be better spent on one $100 hookerbot, or one hundred $1 hookerbots? And I’d like to buy a redheaded one if you please. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/51 "2009-07-09T15:05:34Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > [Re: hookerbots painting his house] Also, assuming you’re a dude, all your guy friends will mock you. Really? Like the way men are mocked for having hot waitresses /hot female secretaries / hot female anything else working with/for them? Assuming the hookerbots are competent painters, and successfully passing as human, I think guy mocking would only happen if the price was known. And even then a good chunk of guys would still be high-fiving and saying “Yeah, but totally worth it dude! Way to go!” ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/52 "2009-07-09T18:41:23Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Now, would my money be better spent on one $100 hookerbot, or one hundred $1 hookerbots? And I’d like to buy a redheaded one if you please. Since the LMDs appearance can be changed at the user’s whim, I do not understand either why you chose to specify “redheaded” or why you did NOT specify gender. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/53 "2009-07-09T18:53:32Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > why you did NOT specify gender. I bet you lost a sale on that one. I’m glad I’m not financially involved in this Titanic Deck Chair Rearrangement. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/54 "2009-07-09T18:57:59Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I bet you lost a sale on that one. I’m glad I’m not financially involved in this Titanic Deck Chair Rearrangement. In the first place I’m not selling any of the hookerbots. I don’t trust anyone but me with them. They are programmed to return to base 24 hours after every rental and to self-destruct if prevented. Second, I was just pointing out that the bots can look like anybody from Shelly Radley to Adolf Manjou. In the third place my finances are secure. On an entirely separate trans-dimensional raiding trip, I kidnapped Ronnie Raymond 5 nanoseconds before he exploded, healed his wounds with my handy-dandy Purple Ray, and brainwashed him to do my bidding. Where do you think I get the unobtainium I need for the continua device & such? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/55 "2009-07-09T19:03:17Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > They are programmed to return to base 24 hours after every rental and to self-destruct if prevented. 1.) What if I want to rent them for longer? 2.) So, I can extort giant amounts of money from you simply by threatening to kidnap a large enough percentage of your hookerbot population? (I.e., you don’t pay up, I don’t release them, they explode themselves, you’re stuck having to replace a significant part of your hookerbot fleet.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/56 "2009-07-09T19:23:32Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > 2.) So, I can extort giant amounts of money from you simply by threatening to kidnap a large enough percentage of your hookerbot population? Don’t annoy him, he thinks he’s Donald Trump. The next girl you meet at a bar may be one of these glowing spine bimbos, programmed to explode at the Worst Possible Moment. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/57 "2009-07-09T19:37:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Don’t annoy him, he thinks he’s Donald Trump. The next girl you meet at a bar may be one of these glowing spine bimbos, programmed to explode at the Worst Possible Moment. :rolleyes: Don’t worry, the hookerbots will be first in line when I start the resurrection. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/58 "2009-07-09T19:44:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Don’t annoy him, he thinks he’s Donald Trump. The next girl you meet at a bar may be one of these glowing spine bimbos, programmed to explode at the Worst Possible Moment. :rolleyes: I don’t have enough hair to be trump. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/59 "2009-07-09T20:08:41Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The next girl you meet at a bar may be one of these glowing spine bimbos, programmed to explode at the Worst Possible Moment. Good thing I’m a straight woman who won’t be doing much drinking any time soon 'cause she’s on anticoagulants, then. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255/60 "2009-07-09T20:20:24Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I don’t have enough hair to be trump. You don’t have to have hair to be trump, just belong to the best held suit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-any-objections-to-me-opening-a-hookerbot-emporium/502255.md?page=4)