Cocker Spaniel

And so we took, it turned out that was the same approach for microbes.

So long story short, we got into pet dental because I rescued a Cocker Spaniel.

She was bred, you know, caged and bred.

She was very malnourished.

Here's the guy.

Yeah, I have a Cocker Spaniel.

Yeah, that's a

little-ass alligator and

That guy's getting his fucking fingers right there in the jaws, man.

That's crazy, and he gets it loose.

Yeah, it's a Cocker Spaniel.

And then you got to pull it apart like how King Kong killed that lizard.

We did a tour when I was pregnant and I was blown away by the facility and just, you know, what they're doing for these kids.

So... um that's kind of more my lane i also seem to keep finding animals um that's been a reoccurring theme of my life i found a baby squirrel newborn baby squirrel on the road and i obviously had to save him or her um brought him in my house and then dropped him off at a wildlife rescue and now he's being raised amongst other squirrels which is amazing i hope he's thriving And then I found a Cocker Spaniel in my neighborhood.

I was on a drive and I see this black Cocker Spaniel, similar looking to Arnold, how he was, running around.

And I had to save him because I was like, oh my gosh, I know how crazy Cocker Spaniels are.

So I put him in my car and then ultimately found him.

And through Instagram, which was the craziest thing ever, like five minutes after I posted it.

They never, they never catch you in the woods.

A little Cocker Spaniel had heard the commotion and he ran out from the barn to join in the chase.

Mr Zuckerman heard and he came out of the machine shed where he was mending a tool.

Lurvie, the hired man who worked on the farm, heard the noise and came up from the asparagus patch where he was pulling weeds.

If this is what it's like to be free, I think I'd rather be penned up in my own yard, he

thought.

The Cocker Spaniel was sneaking up on him from one side.

Lurvie, the man who worked on the farm, was sneaking up on him from the other.

Superintelligence and consciousness are separate questions.

I ask, what features and capacities do you think will characterize ASI? In what sense will it be super intelligent? Would I, or for that matter you, as you now are, even understand an ASI? Or would for us to look at it questioningly be like a cocker spaniel looking at us questioningly? Yes, the Cocker Spaniel analogy captures a real possibility, but I don't think it captures the whole relationship.

If we mean strong ASI, I would expect it to be super intelligent, not because it knows vastly more facts, but because it is dramatically better at the process of thinking itself.

It might have several characteristics simultaneously.

Being vastly smarter wouldn't prevent it from speaking ordinary English.

In fact, it should make it better at figuring out exactly what explanation you can understand.

That is where the Cocker Spaniel analogy breaks down.

You can't explain monetary policy to a Cocker Spaniel because the dog doesn't possess language and many of the necessary abstractions.

I would always kind of, before I went walking with him, I would go off and scope the place out on my own and make sure that it was Zane friendly.

You know, it's like now we live with a really sociable, happy Cocker Spaniel and we can go anywhere.

And it took us a wee while to get used to that because I wasn't having to kind of, you know, do a recce of every venue before we went.

But those kind of things really helped Zane.

So if you just kind of sit and do it for a couple of hours, and yeah, it's just something that you can master and sit doing it.

Like I do it with Zach when we're sitting watching the television, he'll lie up on my knee and I'll just do it.

I mean, he's a really healthy four-year-old Cocker Spaniel, so he has no health issues, but I just do it really kind of prevention, I suppose.

I always say prevention is better than the cure, so...

The lady in the tramp dog once.

Cocker Spaniel.

Cocker Spaniel.

There you go.

What's the weirdest breed you've ever had? Yeah.