You sound deranged. Every big company is bloated, which is why they all just fired a shitload of people. VR was super niche and would have never taken off without something cheap and that worked well. That was the Quest 2.

> That he literally said facebook ads helped trump win?

This just in, political ads help politicians win elections.

Did he made post in patrone about growing opals?

That's how the world we're living in was made

Think about it this way: We used to "code" using binary code. Then things changed and got faster and easier. This is the same. You will be able to use this tools to do what you used to do only faster and easier.

Yeah, sounds like over-hype.

LLMs and transformer NNs, despite their impressiveness, aren't magical. They won't turn water into wine or multiply bread and fishes to feed the poor.

They are just another piece on the creation of a self replicating industrial ecosystem based on robots and AI. Which might never be 100% free of human intervention.

"Hey chatGPT, can you go ahead and optimize your code for a single gpu?" /j

"Consciousness is not proven to be physical". What else ? If you start speaking about the immortal soul, I am out of this discussion (sorry, pure agnostic atheist here).

Now you speak of the mental state as tied to the physical state as time passes. But as Descartes said, "I think therefore I am", ie all input from the senses (sensory input) cannot be trusted. Why would you trust your eyes, do they really show you the truth ? What about visual illusions ?

What I am saying is that I do not need to be meat, I need to have the *exact* (and that is the point I am willing to discuss: would that ever be possible ?) processes. Is the brain a super-processor ? What's the part of randomness ? Can a neuron and axones be modelized with enough precision to reproduce a thought process ? And finally, is it needed to simulate neurones and axones to reproduce a thought process ? Is there a possibility to use another substrate, other mecanisms and get the same results ? Is it possible to feed it replica inputs, so it thinks it sees with its eyes, ears with its ears (and can touch the ears as touch is just another sense to duplicate/copy over) ?

I do not have the answer to the questions above.

BUT

If I have a *perfect* copy, therefore not discernable, it will be the same. Just as 1=1, the '1' on the left is not the '1' on the right, but they have the exact same properties and behavior in mathematics. You can use either of them.

Ask yourself: what is the difference between an original and a *perfect* copy ? If there is any difference, then the copy is not perfect.

Fuck no there was a big demand for VR before Facebook came, Facebook just went in and turned it from a VR industry to a Facebook industry and continuously bought and buried companies(to the point where the FTC stepped in and has been hounding their ass for more than a year over it) then killed creativity by paying the people who worked in these companies to do the absolute minimum and not innovate(When carmack left he said that Meta is bloated and inefficient), right now theyre killing off echo VR(one of the biggest multiplayer VR games) because of its “low player count in the tens of thousands”

Did you know that the guy leading Meta’s efforts in VR/AR, Andrew Bosworth, is the same guy who oversaw Facebook’s advertising efforts in 2016 and 2017? That he literally said facebook ads helped trump win? Thats the motherfucker leading the VR industry right now

Can’t change the settings though.

Yup I would have never bought an overpriced VR set to play games while wired to a PC.

Handmade by humans. AI free spaces. Handcrafted without AI assistance. Made by humans for humans. Made with love not silicone.

"Did you make that, or is it a Rec?" short for recreation

I think we'll have a word or shorthand for AI generated stuff since there will be so much of it.

Like how Text is a verb or Google is a verb, we'll have a quick way to say something is AI vs Human generated.

Maybe a focus on doing things with real humans is too much, but I think non-AI interactions will be valued higher. If I mailed you a handwritten letter you'd value that more than this comment or even a personal email.

Reddittors are likely to embrace the full digital spectrum of AI, but I don't think that sentiment is universal. As Styx said in their song "Domo Arigato" (Mr. Roboto) in 1983...

"Machines to save our lives; machines dehumanize."

In the 1920's as recorded music became popular, the musicians protested as, in all the previous years, music was only ever heard if a human played it for you. Music used to always be a social event, you needed to be skilled yourself, or have skilled friends or others to play it for you, otherwise you'd never hear music.

We invent things to make our lives better (in theory), not to guarantee specific jobs to people. Watch the developments and stay flexible--no one can tell you much more than that at this point.

They vote on the day... They do research before voting day... Use common sense

People just like shitting on Facebook. Zuckerberg's interest in VR is basically the only reason a VR industry even exists at this point. It would have fizzled out 3 or 4 years ago without Facebook throwing millions of dollars into a pit.

I do a lot of repairs on 100-year-old houses for Less well off homeowners. Frequently whatever I'm dealing with has already had one or two repairs sometime in the last century, it's head scratching stuff that will be difficult for an AI to duplicate. https://youtu.be/MVWayhNpHr0 this robot is like 5 years old. Materials aren't sourced on site, and it requires an operator, but it's doing the work of several Masons and only requires a minimal amount of expertise from the worker. https://youtu.be/e5xK2wWUIxw TBH I didn't watch this video but I've watched a bunch of individual ones, and this said it had 10. If a robot comes along halfway through and puts in piping for water and electricity can you not imagine a robot that can build an entire home. The amount of clay in any location can vary a lot, but almost every location has some clay. Maybe we go back to the ancient Mesopotamia style of living in mud brick home

You don't think the decline of relationships, intimacy, and having children is sad?

Maybe I will😀

The world of transformers is pretty amazing. What if you became an expert on that?

More and more of us are caring less and less what "law makers" want. They either work for the general welfare or they can get the fuck out of the way and we will do it.

And I'm serious here. Have you taken a hard look at what one of the two parties are concerned with?

People playing adult dress up?

Christian Nationalism?

Censoring journalists?

Banning certain fields of studies in colleges?

They become more irrelevant every time they open their fucking nasty ass mouths.

A tripping point will be reached and something like Rome will occur. Except this time it will be the majority leaving them on their ass and forming a coalition with them excluded.

Could I preorder the cure for this please?

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Ice cream makes my tummy hurt. If the treatment he built was commercialized, I would buy the shit out of it. The kind of hacking that I do tends to wreck shit though, so I'm not quite at the point where I'd inject anything that I made myself.

head in a jar

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