Finding a Future Partner - Relationship with a Robot

Would you prefer a robotic relationship?

For a long time now I have been yearning for the feeling one gets out of being in a fulfilling long-term relationship with a special someone. Just finding the one who is right for you, your soul mate. Someone to love and care for, and someone who will reciprocate by loving and caring for you back. And that love has to be pure, and not love that's necessarily just limited in the sexual context. A simple hug and holding of hands would do for me, and ability to sleep next to in bed. Someone who will always be by your side, ever loyal, ever tending to your needs and desires (provided they are within reason), someone truly and endlessly loveable. Someone who will be with you until death do us apart (unless death is conquered).

Never be lonely again. Credits: Mark Beernink

 

 

That, AND also someone who is willing to do all the domestic chores without feeling some sort of resentment for your lack of contribution, lol. Someone who will not get envious, get tired of you, gets angry or annoyed, yells and screams at you, and throws other ill forms of abuse, both verbal and physical. Someone who will not betray or demand so much of you, someone who doesn't complain. Someone who won't criticize or judge you negatively. Someone who you don't have to fear will become a liability to your well-being. Someone who won't disappoint you or won't get disappointed with you.

Someone who will help you to improve the best qualities in you, someone who can help teach you new things, help correct your mistakes, contribute to your success and happiness in life, someone who will grow with you and expand their own knowledge/experience. Someone who will identify with your beliefs, principles and values in life, goals and visions for the future. Someone who you will forever share similar interests and aspirations.

Someone who is essentially -- more than human. And this will be no ordinary, typical, traditional relationship. It will go far beyond just a normal romantic/loverA-meets-loverB relationship, something beyond gender roles or a family role. This is much a relationship with an idea, a process, a system, that will guarantee your own self-improvement. A relationship beyond friendship or best friend, beyond romance, beyond something akin to having a twin, or father or mother or teacher/mentor. A relationship where the other recipient essentially becomes an embodiment of everything you hope to ever achieve, someone to gain inspiration from, someone who you would look up to and idolize like a savior, hero or sage, and want to strive to become; someone who essentially becomes like the future you, or you and the other become unified as a single entity.

What I am probably describing is my vision for a futuristic transhumanistic relationship - with a cybernetic robotic being, and it is something I am seriously wanting to pursue. I WANT to be in a relationship with a robot, one that has been developed to such an advanced stage so as to encompass all those qualities I have mentioned. And gender will no longer have any relevance (the robot doesn't need to be male or female, it can take on a more "neutral" appearance), it won't be a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. I wouldn't call it a lover robot, but more like the ultimate-form-of-companionship robot.

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Will there be any kissing involved? Who cares! Well maybe other people will care about a lover bot to make love with and has a specific gender (like those geminoids and sex bots that we see now) but personally such qualities are irrelevant for me. I also hate using the word 'robot' in this typical scenario. They would be so much more sophisticated in its designated purpose and function. I prefer 'cyber companions'.

Personally, the topic of having a relationship with someone is something that I try to be very private and secretive about, for various reasons. In fact, every time I come to think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that a relationship with another human being will just not work out, or has a very high probability of failure, or just simply, is not worth it, as it is let alone, very taxing on your time and other resources just to try to find that special someone, build a relationship with, and maintain. It's a very tricky and risky process, with little guarantee that the relationship would turn out the way you want it. Even a "successful" human relationship has its limitations i.e. in old age, someone will bound to die first!

As much as my primitive biological urges wants me to, I actively refrain from seeking a relationship on that level, no matter how much I crave it *CTRL+W dating site*. It goes something far beyond sexual desires, which really I don't care much for, for a start due to all those associated risks of sexually transmitted diseases. And secondly, there's an alternative remedy to such urges, it's called masturbation.

Another reason I'm not going for a relationship with a human is that, I am currently suffering from the dilemma over the urgent need of establishing financial independence first (no longer working for others) and this objective has my time consumed. In fact it is THE most utmost top priority imperative of the moment. Without being financially secure first, there's simply no point to a relationship anyway (unless they're rich and are willing to support until you can stand on your feet).

But even if finances weren't an issue, pursuing a one-on-one relationship with some human still isn't and shouldn't be on my list of agendas. I have more pressing issues to deal with, like, attaining indefinite lifespan, and acquiring knowledge and skills to better the world. So far, I'm heavily behind with all these endeavors. A relationship with a human may add to the delay as you would have additional responsibilities in ensuring their well-being, etc. They may even become a menacing headache wanting your attention (and money) all the time, as well as the threat that they may bring in even more problems. I cannot afford to waste my energy on all those distractions.

In any case, the first moment I can be with a fully relationship-capable constructed android being, I won't hesitate a second more to be in a relationship with one, and see how it goes from there. This probably won't happen until many decades into the future though, once the tech has 'matured' (no pun intended) and I can afford to purchase them.

There are other moral implications to this though, like what if someone is abusive to their companion bot? Well all I can hope for is that the bot has the ability to defend themselves and can change the violent tendencies of that person so they become a better person. Either that or the bot just shuts down and ceases to function, to teach the silly human the consequences of being an idiot.

Finally, there is the issue of having children and raising them. Would I want to have kids myself? As in creating one from scratch (if with a robot, a child will have to be made in the laboratory, using genetic engineering, artificial wombs and incubators). Ideally NO because there's already too many humans about but there are times I would like instead to run my own orphanage to look after children who have no parents. Look after the ones we already have on this planet that are being neglected. Then we can teach them advanced things such as Transhumanist ideals to which they shall become the future of whatever becomes of humanity. We are probably going to achieve biological immortality anyway and bringing more children into the world is not a fundamental necessity at this point.

All these ideas are probably something my basic human counterparts will never be able to fully comprehend, telling me that I'm crazy. That's okay, so was Einstein, for having a relationship with his cousin (even though this example is in no way equivalent to my case). I just hope one day I can be a fully synthetic cyborg too...