Why swim with a real dolphin when you can swim with a robot instead?

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: Why swim with a real dolphin when you can swim with a robot instead? | Boing Boing

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[beschizza]

Paging Margaret. Margaret to the courtesy phone, you have a call.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Putting you through now.

[Papasan]

[Mangochin]

[DenverLett]

But will they hump you?

[knoxblox]

I’m imagining there will be plenty of folks who would try to hump the robot, from the news I’ve seen in my lifetime.

[Mister44]

The ones made in Japan might…

[FloridaManJefe]

I, for one, welcome our robotic cetacean overlords.

[DenverLett]

@knoxblox

I’m imagining there will be plenty of folks who would try to hump the robot, from the news I’ve seen in my lifetime.

Yup. That was my thought too.

[PurpleFlower]

Why would you make realistic robot dolphins when you could make realistic robot POKEMON?!? Let me hug a Teddiursa, damn it!

[FGD135]

@thomdunn

Of course, even if we did replace all animalistic close encounters with robots, there would still be a question of whether those robots were capable of dreaming about electric sheep.

If they were they would be sentient beings too. Somewhat antithetical to the concept.