 New assignment from the boss. We're building a robot dog. Should I even ask why? His dad's dog is getting old, and he doesn't want his dad to get lonely when the dog dies. So he wants us to create an immortal dog machine to replace his father's beloved pet after its eventual death. Yep. Isn't this kind of weird? It's morbid as hell and shows that our majority stakeholder doesn't understand how humans actually work. But this is not news. This is not a robot dog. Nope. It's a sensor array that records everything the dog sees and feels. When we get enough data, we can create a robot dog that will not only look, but... act like the original. So we're machine learning the dog? Pretty much. We have a problem. There's been a death. The dog died? Nope. Shit. Now the dog is really depressed. He wants us to engineer a solution. He wants us to engineer a solution to a sad dog. Why are you... How did you know? It just made sense. It just made sense to build a robot of our boss's dad from his dog's memories? Not just any robot. The best possible version of him. The one that his dog remembered. That's the happiest dog I've ever seen.