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People keep pet rocks Human beings can get attached to anything, regardless of its utility. This thing mimics the actions of a puppy, and it stays a puppy for
by puranjay 9y ago
People keep pet rocks
Human beings can get attached to anything, regardless of its utility.
This thing mimics the actions of a puppy, and it stays a puppy forever.
Of course people would get attached to it, and in selling that attachment, there is value.
You're approaching this too much from an engineer's POV
- vortico 9y ago>You're approaching this too much from an engineer's POV I don't agree with this. If anything, I am approaching it from a spiritual POV when I say that a normal person cannot love an object like you can love a dog.
- ericd 9y agoIf that was the case, people probably wouldn't be holding funerals for their v1 Aibos, and there wouldn't be an active repair scene for them. They probably also wouldn't have made a v2. This thing is explicitly designed to trick your "is this a living being" circuitry.
- Udik 9y ago> This thing mimics the actions of a puppy Wait. I guess it mimics some actions of a puppy, and I imagine it can be entertaining for a few hours. Then you get used to it, and you start seeing the repeating patterns. For how long can you find entertaining a robot dog that pretends to scratch its ear, for no reason in the world and without actually even coming close to touch it with its paw?