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Meta Ray-Ban Display 10 months ago

why have mechanical keyboards become so damn popular and not "keyboards on screens?"

I mean... have you ever used a phone?

Meta Ray-Ban Display 10 months ago

This reads a bit like like a pre-PC take: "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?"

Imagine it’s 1992:

Cookbook: Open book, follow steps.

PC: Turn on tower, wait for DOS, fiddle with floppies, pray the printer works, hope the shareware recipe isn’t weird.

Not saying you're wrong but its easy to miss the big picture

OpenAI O3-Mini 1 year ago

Yes I'd bet most users just 50/50 it, which actually makes it more remarkable that there was a 56% selection rate

Large Enough 2 years ago

It just needs a little hint

    Me: spell "strawberry" with 1 bullet point per letter
    ChatGPT:
       S
       T
       R
       A
       W
       B
       E
       R
       R
       Y
    Me: How many Rs? 
    ChatGPT: There are three Rs in "strawberry".

Well, my point was made in reference to the original comment which said

If consciousness is not well understood, how is AI on silicon allowed, or any computing machines at all

Which implies that we should care about some kind of suffering inflicted on conscious beings. My argument was that we don't care about AI suffering because we don't really care that much about suffering generally, because of what we chose to do to animals.

Maybe unrelated, but I think some people do this to check (at least partially) what email is tied to an account. E.g. if you suspect an anonymous instagram user to be your friend Bob, you can invoke the reset email procedure to see

    We sent an email to bo****@gm***.com
Which gives you a hint

The point is that Mark's vision is much more social... The most Apple showed was FaceTime but with added 3D on their avatar. There's so much missed opportunity here for true spatial social interaction that Apple avoided

Of course every one has been wrong. If they were right, you wouldn't be here talking about it. It shouldn't be surprising that everyone has been wrong before

Websites will optimise for AI eyes rather than Human eyes. Advertisers will pay to embed information in the websites that is read by AI, which subtlety makes the advertisers' products more valuable in the eyes of the AI. Then the AI would ultimately spit out information to users that are biased towards the advertiser's products.

Meta Quest Pro 4 years ago

Meetings in VR are a gimmick

I expect you're wrong - spatial audio, body language, face tracking, eye contact are all super valuable and possibly in VR