On 2021-02-26 1:38 a.m., Mathias Homann wrote:
Am 25.02.2021 um 22:20 schrieb Anton Aylward:
On 2021-02-25 2:44 p.m., Carlos E. R. wrote:
You do not know if one day in the next five years you will have a visitor, a guest, a partner, a worker, a thief, a nurse... or a clever dog.
Don't worry about dogs; dogs are stupid.
I remember watching a thing on TV where they ran different breeds of dogs through a pacours of some kind where the dogs would have to do more and more complicated things to reach the hidden treat.
As far as I recall the breed with the lowest performance was the basset and the one with the highest was the australian shepherds dog - and then the guy "narrating" the thing said "which of the two breeds is the smarter one remains to be discussed."
Indeed. All that proves is that dogs are about as smart as rats. (c.f. Tolman, 1930, for this sort of experiment) If we get to some superbreeding and 'uplift' dogs and cats as with gorillas and dolphins in (IIR) David Brin's stories, you can bet that dogs will have utilitarian jobs like driving garbage collection rucks, park maintenance, road maintenance, possibly even bike couriers, where as cats will have comfortable sedentary indoor jobs like being accountants or censoring comments to blogs and other 'social media'. If department stores still exist you might expect to find cats in the ladies fashion department advising on style and deportment. Of course dogs will still carry out guard duties, be custom agents and other similar roles. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg