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Showing Original Post only (View all)I am an evil person. I bought a robot to feed our cat. [View all]
We have to leave town for 5 days to set up my son at an internship far away.
The only person in our neighborhood who we felt comfortable to feed the cat was out of town when we went to call him.
So we went looking for a robot. We asked at a local dog and cat accessories store if they sold cat feeding robots and the owner sneered at us and said, "we would never sell them."
A nice lady overheard us, and came up to us outside to say she had a cat feeding robot, but her cat was too neurotic to use it, and she offered to sell it to us.
So we bought it. We're testing it. It allowed us to record our voices, and I recorded my voice insulting the cat, but because of what Pavlov discovered, she thinks this insult means she is either about to be petted or fed, sometimes both.
It feeds the cat quite well, and more systematically than we do, since we're inclined to let the cat become obese since we give in to cat nagging. The robot couldn't care less what the cat thinks.
The cat eats from it, albeit grudgingly.
The kid who was out of town, came back and we hired him to come in and pet the cat, but basically his job otherwise has been automated away by a robot.
I am a bad person.
Not only that, but I just found out that my kid, the one we're driving to the internship, has programmed a computer in an AI application to look for cracks in materials, putting microscopists out of work.
We're a family of bad people.