I sympathise, but the cliché is not strictly true. Nature is all about diversity. Just like humans have a certain ratio of “bad apples” born where someone is hard wired wrong, so do dogs, and likely all animals.

Psychopathology is real. It would be a mistake to deny Nature it’s agency. There are people who belong in an institution. Dogs perhaps moreso.

To your point, yes most problems are attributable to bad trainers, but even here there is something missing. Bad breeders - natural reproduction would select for fitness, and truly bad dogs would be limited to a small fraction of background instances. We have lots of people actively breeding killers with outsized agression and fear and ferocity, with hair triggers, on purpose. I’m not talking about guard dogs where fierce protective instincts are balanced with loyalty and bonding and intelligence. I mean literal psychokillers.

I’m circling around Pit-Bulls and the like, but I need to be clear. The breed is fine. Some of my best friends are pit bulls. Diversity naturally makes most of them good dogs, just more context dependant and trainer demanding. I’m not talking about those. I’m only referring to a small subset that were overbred and the natural background level of freakshow.

If you’ve only known pets from reputable breeders, accidental litters or the shelter rescues, understand that these select for the good dogs. If that’s all you know, you would have reason to doubt that bad dogs are possible.

Fine. Winning lottery numbers then. I can ponder the depths of the other ineffable questions from a beach with a tasty beverage somewhere nice.

How does one get grants for this type of research? Asking for a friend.

Not all. There are some bad boys out there.

Winning lottery numbers for next draw. When will humanity go extinct? Where are the nearest 1 billion species with near human level intelligence or greater. How do we safely and conveniently travel faster than light.

So many to choose.

You sure you want that?

Be grateful they are incompetent.

Por qué no los dos.

Biometrics are a username not a password. Authentication is not authorization. This sounds like trying to stop man in the middle attacks with something susceptable to man in the middle attacks.

Maybe I’m just not getting the idea.

Classic Business Model. Make a problem. Sell it and its solution.

Anyone but Tesla.

With your Barber’s consent, anything is possible. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

This. Are you me?

Not a Barber but my Barber loves me, and I him. You are a posable manequin meant to hold a position. They will gently guide your head to the desired position whenever a change is required. Gently acquiesce. Tip generously.

Sorry, I’m all out of heroine.

Being “The One” is like being in love. No one can tell you you’re in love, you just know it, balls to bones.

This is where I say "Hmmm that’s interesting.

That’s when you say…

Perhaps by your standards. ;)

Celebrate is not the right word. Trump is just the crash test dummy front man. The entire administration and republican party have lost their minds/shown their true colors. It’s not time to celebrate. There’s still a lot of work to be done.

I will however drink my best bottle of wine and toast the moment.

Two thoughts to consider. First is that the author might be abusing language in a way that deliberately obscures meaning, to pursue another goal. I.e. appearing intellectual or appealing to a reader who wants to fit this aesthetic.

The second is that LLMs do this as well. As they adapt to the language in your questions and subject material, they can diverge from the ideal path of bridge building between the reader and subject matter and either dumb it down so as to lose meaning (not explain in laymen’s terms), or further obscure meaning by hallucination, misinterpretation, abuse of language in trying to appear to be something.

It may help. It may hurt. They aren’t reliable enough yet to know which is which especially when you are unfamiliar enough with the material and trusting the system is all you got. The better method is joining a book club or perhaps a discussion forum for the fans of the book if available. Maybe a forum on the general topic were you might encounter other readers where you can discuss the topic.

My dog sleeps right in between me and my wife. She likes to be the big spoon and the little spoon.