A-X-L: dogs as technology, domestication, and unpleasant sticky materials
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Doggo
Man’s best friend! And one of (many of?) our best technologies. The level to which we can handicap animals for aesthetics if we put our mind to it. Domesticated foxes.
Domestication
Domestication. Plants and animals. Bending chosen qualities to better human use.
Watermelon as of The Renaissance. Yay selective breeding! We win!
Warbot design
Implicit and explicit communication channels. Dog human body language-reading. Data connections and cloudy signal processing. Adaptation of dog body-design to robots. The small design effort required to get people to treat a robot animal like an animal.
Flamethrowers
The difference between industrial and military flamethrowers. An unpleasant, sticky material: napalm and napalm-like products!
Survey!
We have one of those. Pls help.