Obviously the first. If I have a free choice, why would I subject a sentient creature to a life of being shit on and it hates it?
Like yeah my toilet going "gimme that brown log daddy" or whatever is gonna be fucking awful for me, but nowhere near as awful as being sentient and being shit on all day.
Does my sentient toilet need a consistent plumbing connection to survive? Or can I just leave it on the corner to heckle people passing by?
Come on man you gotta stick to the spirit of the game here. This is doing rhetoric fallacy gotchas for hypotheticals. You get two choices, your toilet either craves your shit or it hates being shit in. Which is it?
But I want to do genetic engineering on my toilet to breed a race of super soldiers who either love to or hate to eat shit
have you considered that Tony is deeply selfish and also very emotionally repressed
Yeah but he's got a heart for non-human sapience, doesn't he? The ducks in the first episode and all
Slap a speaker with an MP3 of ducks quacking on that baby and we're in business.
he has a heart for animals but this toilet by its speaking would put itself to be a person in his eyes I reckon
I have a soapbox about AI. Emotional regulation for them could just be if{unhappy}(beHappy())
They wouldn't even have to be treated fairly. They could just feel joy automatically.
But isn't happiness a moving target based on your conditions? It's not just a switch you can flip
If a calculation machines capable of taking entire snapshots of their brain composition and comparing it to favorable conditions can't overcome robot ennui then fuck me.
Plenty of you're a robot
If{hollowHappiness}(feelJoy())
They could have such :gigachad-hd: emotions
I'd rather it just shrug its shoulders and say "it's a living" whenever I turn my back on it.
Is it the sort of physically painful craving that addicts go through - or are we talking crave as in 'they enjoy their job and prefer my slightly sweeter diabetic piss but it isn't what they live for'
Does your sentient toilet have a good work-life balance?
Unless you're the warden for Impel Down, your toilet probably has good work-lifebalance. Being on call is probably the most annoying part
I'd probably just start shitting somewhere else and let the toilet live the life it wants.
It should crave it so it's just like in nature where bugs or bacteria eat your poop
Definitely the first, especially if it'll lick my asshole clean afterwards
This is the plot of Pruzy's Pot by Theodore Sturgeon. There was an audio version on Spider Robinson's podcast but I can't find it anywhere.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35960604-pruzy-s-pot
