Their true product is fear. Fear of missing out, fear of losing your job, fear of losing your life. Everything they do kinda makes sense when you look at OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. in that light.

iPads and iPods don’t infringe because they’ve never had any kind of haptic feedback.

Fun fact, the other thing that can cause this is a Bluetooth mouse in a backpack that is being clicked continuously. Confused me to no end for fifteen minutes.

Getting rid of the internal combustion engine is the main one, but your point stands.

Apple’s hardware side seems pretty great at it. Software maybe less so.

Our immune system is _so cool_. Seems like every week I learn something new about it.

As a book recommendation: Immune - Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Dettmer, Philipp.

Or for something a bit more immediate and casual, the Kurzgesagt playlist of immune-system videos. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLFs4vir_WsTyS2cy4vj4obl5igqC...

I used to be, now it’s an indicator that human thought may be involved that I wouldn’t be able to trivially replicate with the free slop-idea vending machine.

> Do trick questions demonstrate that most people don't "get it"?

"Should I walk to the car wash" is hardly a trick question. If a human told me to walk to the car wash because it's so close, I would say that demonstrates they don't "get it".

I don't see that much difference with "A plane crashes on the border of the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?"

Fast thinking fails to activate slow thinking.

Fire is pretty effective too, in my experience.

I think someone following the mantra I repeated, would say that you are thinking too much about the physical copy of the book and less about the book as a collection of words.

Buy another

Floods are pretty bad for them too. I have some books drying now, some paper is really bad about getting wet while others are okay.

they're not exactly thrilled by termites either. lost a lot of my grandparents' books to that.