I'm Building a Sexy Robot

[Esper]

That title. I don't even.

Imagine you had the power to create the perfect partner for yourself. They would be everything you could ever want in a person and they would be a real person (not actually a robot) with a mind and will of their own and once they existed you wouldn't have any control over them or anything like that. Of course, you'd be their type, too, and all that because that's how you'd have made them. The question: would you do it? Would you feel uncomfortable knowing that they were constructed by you, or would something like that not bother you? Would you tell them? Insert your own question here.

This is primarily a question of your personal comfort and more existential stuff, but I suppose if you do wanna describe your sexy robot you can. But please keep it appropriate.

 

[Who's Kiyo?]

If I had the scenario you posed originally Scarf, I might just do it. I would only feel weird about it if I had control of their willpower, since they'd basically be my meat puppet. But since I don't and they gain their own sense of self, I guess not. Why not?

Then again, I may have a problem with them being too perfect. Truly loving someone is excepting their strengths and flaws, and balancing each other out. Could our relationship really work out? Would it not get bland since I know exactly what to expect from them? Perhaps if this was a subconscious thing, where an ideal match filled with pros and cons so that both of you can match up together well could be made for you without your personal hand in the matter.

This kind of reminds me of the "Ideal Baby" controversy. That particular controversy revolves around something more tangible than sexy robots, but it's the same core concept. "Creating another person to your whim," but in that case it deals with choosing specific in-vitro eggs to make your child have red hair or brown eyes, etc. I guess the real questions lies:

Should we be allowed to tweak others to our liking? And would it work out in the end?

 

[Yoshikkko]

Like Kiyoshi said, I'd probably have that problem too with finding them too perfect. I actually kind of like flaws in people because it's what makes them unique and interesting, and it makes their strong points even stronger. And I probably also wouldn't like it that I was the one who made them, I'd know them from the inside out and I'd feel more like.. their parent than their significant other lol, because that knowledge about them would be one-sided, they wouldn't know me like I know them which would just be uncomfortable and weird. I wouldn't be able to keep it a secret from them and I think telling them would be even weirder and yeah no, I wouldn't do it haha.

 

[Shining Raichu]

I would have a ton of problems knowing I had created them specifically for me. Everything would seem artificial and even though they become their own person and you have no control over them, I would take extreme issue with knowing that every decision they make was caused by how I'd programmed them to think and feel. If I made everything about them, even if I don't control what happens after, I still kinda do because I created the game.

I don't think I'd have the heart to tell them that they were created specifically for me though. I could just never enter into the thing morally because after the person has been created there are three options:

1) Don't tell them and live with them forever, you knowing the truth.
2) Leave them and wash your hands of it, leaving them with nobody because they were created specifically for you and are therefore unlikely to be compatible with anybody else
3) Tell them the truth and face the consequences

And if there is anything watching Dollhouse taught me, it's that 3 is not an option.

 

[Mr Cat Dog]

Firstly, how does a thread with that AMAZING title not have more responses?

Secondly, like most of the other posters in this thread, I'd feel very... off about doing something like this. The scenario has all the trappings of many great works of literature about love AND obsession (your Frankensteins and the like) that I can't imagine a 'sexy robot' scenario ending well. If I gave this potential partner free will, even if she was made for me by me, what's to stop her from doing other stuff? If I didn't give her free will, then I'd just feel awful for having her feel her natural emotions. Now I kinda feel slightly sick thinking about it... thanks, Scarfy!

 

[Know-Nothing Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog]

I would definitely do it. And it wouldn't bother me in the least. Quite the contrary, I'd quite like that. It'd be better than a normal person, since normal people are, for the most part, insincere and cruel, and it seems they've always got some sort of hidden agenda against me. But with this artificial person I'd pretty much know who he was and what his motivations were. So there'd be no unpleasant surprises. ^_^

I doubt I'd tell him, though. Why would I want to disturb him with that thought? Cause I'm sure that'd be just extremely weird, knowing that. (really, would you want to know that you were created by someone else and pretty much designed to their liking? o.o)