Blocking things based solely on not liking them is a terrible reason.

Türkiye: [sweating profusely]

How? I didn't use it for years and it's fine.

I suspect he was brain dead for much longer than 1 month.

Oh nice, I still have my Oculus Quest. But will I be able to play the games that I bought from the store after this?

You are just using a very narrow definition of intelligence to mean exactly human-like intelligence. All intelligence is signal processing and pattern recognition. You can give LLM a novel task and it might complete it. Sometimes even well. Sure, you may argue it doesn't "understand" what's it's doing the way humans do (seemingly), but it's still intelligence of some kind.

People, in general.

Couldn't stop playing it for days when I first got it.

I now start and abandon x10 more hobby projects every year, so yeah, my productivity is definitely up.

Oh man, that sounds way inefficient. Guess I'll stick to the human presence sensors, then...

Not familiar with those MZCO books.