Sorry, but that's a pretty big lie in my book. If she was upfront about it, that's one thing. And if she was willing to lie about that, what other lies are there? OP was right to break it off.

This is the song that doesn't end...

And the best part, Michelin is French. It was French capitalism that created this.

So when scammers use AI agents to pull money from hapless victims and someone decides to take down the scammers chat bots, will that be the scammers fault or mine for making a scam bot repeat the letter H for hours on end?

You never know, her son might have broken both his arms.

Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stevenson. But keep it the modern stuff as part of the ninties at the Dawn of the Information Age.

I don't think you could take out the anarchist stuff and keep any cohesion to the story. Unless Hollywood wants to make a movie about how an anarchist learned the true value of capitalism and power of friendship.

It would make for an amazing series, but you are right in that it needs to be made by not Hollywood. Perhaps find someone to make it a web series?

To use the Chinese Room, it would be trying to tell the man in the room to use cultural signifiers when crafting the responses.

While not any of the stories themselves, it used his three laws and the character of Dr Susan Calvin. The robots model number and the name of the company that made them were from a couple of the stories as well.

I read the books and understood his point, mine was more to start conversations about if it would be necessary or possible to place limits on them in such a manner.

So what's the difference between the plans? I got used to the ads because I pay for the lower tier and still had the same content. Will they be changing the content based on tier? That path leads to more piracy than ads if you ask me.

Any hobby that makes you smell like you filled your pants is one that needs to be re-evaluated.