Okay but you get some of these things are like the core of the dystopianness?
Like reading diamond age and doing the 'let's make a pure ai kids toy!' Or 'I want a skull gun!' Instead of any of the cool parts, when the book is exactly about how 'this is dangerous/stupid/fundamentally evil/would suck'. You're from the bay area, or work in tech. You have to be.
Also, we do not have parlor walls. How does someone get to be this stupid-evil and this confident in being stupid-evil? Like have you ever seen a torment nexus you didn't want to stick your dick in?