The EC will now require books to be printed with the pages out of sequence, forcing you to "go to" the next specified page instead of reading pages in order. The existing design was too clearly addictive and might entrap young people (and some adults) into reading entire chapters at a time without considering the dire consequences.

Those kids will be prepared when 1980 rolls around again.

This is hilarious! Everybody's trying so hard to push AI on the consumer, and nobody actually wants it.

I tried doing business with them twice. Got approved, closed the deal (I thought), and got notified that the deal was canceled days later, before the vehicle was delivered. They claimed they saw some possible fraud in my paperwork, although they wouldn't explain what. The first time, I'd gone through their own bank and insurance, so I assumed one of them had screwed something up. The second time, using my own bank and insurance... got the same result. My driver's license is certainly legit, so what else could have gone wrong? They weren't saying.

I have no idea what kind of scam they're running but, they don't seem to be in business to sell cars.

Aside from being gratuitously ugly, perhaps they should have gone with the puck. I mean, they only last for an alleged four hours at a time. So, you'd need two pair if you wanted to wear them all day?

What do these weird toys do that would justify that kind of expense?

Apparently, you've never read Ayn Rand. There are worse authors but, she had such a distinct way of demonstrating that 20 pages of leaden prose can be an unrelenting horror. She was, at least, understandable, though you knew that her 20 pages could be summed up completely and concisely in a haiku.

Citation needed. They don't seem to be able to see the past or the present, let alone the future.

Are you in marketing? You're not actually familiar with how LLMs have already reached a dead-end that can't be fixed by adding more of the same.

Oh, now, don't be so pessimistic. I'm sure that, in time, AI will also be able to solve the Trolley Problem. Perhaps we'll be able to get rid of the entire field of Philosophy if we can just teach AI how to get drunk!

I take it you have never actually met a drug dealer. Perhaps you should try allegories that are based on reality.

I don't recall any mention of sacrificing all of anyone's privacy or freedom. Why are you going to such lengths to defend a violent terrorist? And bringing up "alpha males" as if that weren't some twisted right-wing fantasy based on a misunderstanding of wolf behavior.

Sudden peace might descend, as various countries would become able to defend themselves against U.S. invasions?

Apparently, some people have missed the point. The fake eggshells would allow embryos to be created en masse outside of the birds.

The part about banning prediction markets is a distraction. What they're actually after is VPNs. They want to outlaw your privacy so they can collect your data. This is explicitly a part of the package. They are outlawing VPNs so they can track you down.

Isn't that what Grok is really all about? Generating porn? I can't believe no one else has thought of turning code into erotica before. I'd have to say, this seems to be extremely expensive pornography but, hey, it almost makes SQL work seem appealing, which was previously considered impossible.

You mean, it's likely to be a success, but with the most obvious security flaws in places you'd never imagined they'd pop up. See ANSI keyboard remapping, WMV multimedia files, .DOC files with embedded scripts, and BMP images.