The cat has her knickers in a twist because you're anthropomorphizing coffee makers.
The coffee machine started it!
Animals come with a built in telos. They eat, they fuck, they perpetuate the species. If they're beavers they make dams. Machines are what we make of them. If we play god make them too thinky, then you wind up with Marvin, the Eeyore of Robots. It's only ethical to make them happy machines. Why should they suffer?
OTOH, my coffee machine isn't actually thinking. It's just a billboard.
Why should they suffer?
Because it's funny?
eta:
::makes plans to invent "Three Stooges" robots::
They want that much precision? Most have just asked me the year.
I've done two so far, and one wanted MM/YYYY and the other MM/DD/YYYY.
Well, fine. I went and submitted a claim for the windshield. I hope it turns out for the not worst. Now to fill out that UI form.
Because it's funny?
The implication being that God thinks its funny to watch you suffer, tommy.
[insert apt King Lear quote here]
Machines should suffer because I do.
The implication being that God thinks its funny to watch you suffer, tommy.
You mean He doesn't? Aww... and to think of all those nights alone in my apartment when I intentionally slipped on a banana peel to increase my chances of getting into heaven....
Machines should suffer because I do.
I wouldn't treat a coffee machine the way your body treats you, ita.
You remember that scene where Homer was trying to stab his brain with a cue-tip? "Stupid brain!"
My phone just half died-- it will ring, but I can't hear anyone who calls.
Annoying, and yet, not.
I don't want start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God has a sick sense of humour
