I explained to a non-technical friend that I was implementing "fear and greed" in my bot as a kind of joke, and he said, "Oh wow you're giving it emotions. It's sentient? That's really cruel to make it fearful. Why would you do that?"

I tried to spend the next ten minutes explaining it was just a series of "if" statements. I'm not sure he really got it -- all he said after was something like "It's amazing programmers can do that now"