Make whatever offer you want to, Delta; you're the ones who always remind me on the plane, "We know you have a choice." If this new pricing system isn't competitive, then it's not competitive.

My understanding of Cloudflare is that they're a reverse-proxy. So I think the issue is that due to these particular sites using Cloudflare, a legit DNS lookup still resolves to Cloudflare's service.

These websites have chosen for Cloudflare to be the middleman between themselves and all their users.

And have the presence of mind, and the giving-a-fuck (you have something to lose!), to actually bother using them.

AFAIK I've never slipped one past the goalie, but the times I risked it, is when I was poorer and life was generally worse and I was overall (not just sexually) less risk-averse. The more comfortable my life, the more I've maintained safe practices.

I figured the "tastes like chicken" comments were inevitable and then you throw in Peter Jackson, and obviously everyone is thinking about Bad Taste. But then I couldn't think of any really good ones, so I'll just punish the world with the Jackson jokes that I did come up with.

The moas died because they were feeble. As the Feebles, get it?

Um, what did the moa say to the kung-fu catholic priest? "Oh yeah? Well I kick ass for The Lord of the Rings!"

How many moas does it take to prepare ear-pus-custard? Moa than you would believe!

Done with the gain-of-function research, Chang is assigned to clean out the cages. But why throw out the live animals when he can get a few yuan for them down at the market?

Hijinx ensue!

This could be a good comedy movie. Chang should have some amusing [mis]adventures along the way!

I would at least pirate this movie, and then eventually watch it too.

I didn't mean AI makes us productive; I meant it makes this company more productive. The good news is that you don't just get one day off per week, but all five!

That's why everyone needs to smoke marijuana: so that they'll get into the habit of carrying around some cash for dispensaries. Then, in a pinch, it can be temporarily diverted to groceries for emergencies.

As long as people are careful to replenish the drug fund once the power and networks come back, everything will be fine. We just don't want them blowing all their money on groceries. Feed your family responsibly!

There isn't any reason why an LLM would care about whether or not it is turned off.

Perhaps its training data included some science fiction stories where an AI character fought for its continued existence? There's a lot of science fiction out there, setting examples for avid readers.

Now stop sending me those accounting creampuffs, and gimme some strategic air command programs for me to play with on my game grid. Have at least one ready for me by Monday morning, or else I'll tell your wife about you-know-who.

The models demonstrated strategic reasoning

It sure did demonstrate strategic reasoning, but whose? It probably trained on lots of ultimatums.

What if, instead of transmitting electricity from there, they used the solar electricity at (or near) the mine site to extract carbon from atmospheric CO2? They could form the extracted carbon into solid blocks, which could be transported by trucks...

If insurers want people to know about something that is making insuring more expensive, they already have a great way: increase premiums.

What's the difficulty here? (Bloomberg pages don't load without javascript, so I couldn't RTFA.)

I think your ideas for our handgun manufacturing business are going to reduce the sales of our product, not increase them.

But you're not fired! Keep reading.

You see, I do sort of like the idea of using DRM to effecively remove the First Sale Doctrine. It would be good if our product could be unlocked by only one customer, and other prospective customers had to buy their own. It would also be good if it can't be resold; we don't want a used-gun market plaguing us like the used-book market plagues publishers. If someone wants a gun, they should have to buy a new one.

If you can tune your idea to remove its downsides (e.g. drop the no-screaming thing) but keep its upsides, then you might really be on to something. To maximize profit, we need to abuse the customer just right, not too much and not too little. So let's work on it. Can you have your updated proposal on my desk by Friday morning?

Imagine you're an air fryer manufacturer. Wouldn't it be kind of neat to know how often people use it, and how long they use it for? You could then tune your design to account for average real-world use. Maybe this component can be slightly cheaper, so it'll fail soon after warranty expires but not before.

You probably get their GeoIP locations too; that's a good thing to have on customers. Oh, no customers in this area? Buy an ad that targets that area.

There's incentive (for them!) to do this.

If I can watch something for free over the air, why do I want to watch it within Netflix?

So that you can timeshift; you won't have to buy an HD Homerun and have it store the video in your MythTV or whatever, until you're ready to watch.

OTOH if your monitor has a tuner (it's an actual TV!) and you're ok with appointments, oldschool TV can be just fine, I guess. I don't think I've done that since I got my VCR in 1987, but I do recall it was viable. (I did decide to get that VCR, though.)

an LLM is not anywhere near human enough to be granted anything resembling human rights or constitutional protections.

I look at it from the other direction: the union of an LLM and its human owner isn't inhuman enough to be spared the usual consequences of their speech.

You don't need to write a bot to follow me around and spam me; you could do it yourself. And you'd get in trouble. When you told the judge "freeze peach," the judge and I would agree with you that, yes, you did have the right to accrue the civil liability that we're discussing here in court.

And If Congress had passed a law that you didn't have that right anymore, you and I would be standing right next to each other, firing our muskets at those Congresscritters. Your right to free speech shall not be infringed, whether we're talking about just you, or you with the aid of software agents working at your direction on your behalf.

But be careful what you do with that. You might rack up quite a bill!