"virtual factitious disorder", pseuicide", and "bimbot"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Don't be primitive.

A hobot is a real, AI-equipped, chip-and-ultrafoam android available in
various styles who/that is ready to be your friend at a moment's notice.
Think of a highly attractive "good zombie"! It's a robot plus!

Send me your money (sorry, no checks or plastic) to enable further R&D, as
time permits, on this civilization-altering breakthrough.


JL


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> John, does "hobot" mean the factitious, virtual "ho" who offers sex
> via the Internet to young males?  Or something entirely different?
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> Joel
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> At 7/2/2014 08:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >In 2012 I coined "hobot."  Not many people know this. It's a specialized
> >form of robot for the young male demographic.
> >
> >JL
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> >
> >On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > Subject:      "virtual factitious disorder", pseuicide", and "bimbot"
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> > > All are words used in a review of "VIRTUAL UNREALITY: Just Because
> > > the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?",  by Charles Seife
> > > (Viking).  $26.95.  I suspect these words are also present in the
> > > book itself, but I have not bought it yet.
> > >
> > > "virtual factitious disorder" -- a severe disease, publicized on the
> > > world wide web, possessed by a person who does not exist.  Also known
> > > as "Munchausen by Internet".
> > >
> > > "pseuicide" -- suicide of a non-existent person suffering from an
> > > incurable virtual factitious disorder.
> > >
> > > "bimbot" -- a fake woman created online to entice men.
> > >
> > >  From the NYTimes review, now at http://tinyurl.com/q67odoe :
> > >
> > > "Then there are sock puppeteers who fabricate phony personas to
> > > acquire authority or sympathy. It has become so common for bloggers
> > > to fabricate young people with terrible diseases, the author notes,
> > > that this syndrome now has a name: "virtual factitious disorder" or
> > > "Munchausen by Internet."
> > >
> > > "Mr. Seife sums up how these stories tend to go: "Create a sock
> > > puppet or two, give it a tragic problem that will garner sympathy,
> > > and then commit 'pseuicide.' It's almost guaranteed to cause a big
> stir."
> > >
> > > "Mr. Seife also dilates here upon scam artists, photo manipulators,
> > > flash trading on the stock market, the promulgation of "bimbots"
> > > (fake online women created to lure lonely men) and the primordial
> > > idiocy of sites like Foursquare, which encourage you to tell people
> > > where you are in order to earn meaningless badges."
> > >
> > > Joel
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