olivierestsage

To me, it feels like the opposite: a useful tool that's been wrongly marketed as something more. LLMs are very helpful in many different contexts. Sure, you could also use them to discuss your intimate issues or make your decisions for you, but you could also do that with Eliza back in the day if you wanted to. Wasn't a good idea then, isn't a good idea now.

Well, that’s the first thing I’ve ever seen that made me want a Vision Pro (or VR/AR in general), so hats off for that. (Edit: Mario 64 pun not intended)

I appreciated the detail about the silent work environment, as opposed to today (in the US at least), where if you want silence to concentrate, the burden is on you to defend against noise rather than the other way around

I speak for an entire generation of people when I say thanks, nice job with this

Pixelation is clear on a CRT. Long before people stopped using CRTs, the blocky pixel aesthetic was immediately recognizable to everyone as the “video game look”. The earliest Flash movies on sites like Newgrounds, around the turn of the millennium, used the blocky pixel art style (and we were all still using CRT TVs at that point). I simply don’t see the argument about the pixel aesthetic being not original to that time.

I don’t think there are any sectors of the population that are “overwhelmingly pro-AI” except for: a) people who think it will help them better exploit or surveil others; b) people who think it will raise their social standing by making their deficiencies less obvious if they pass AI work off as their own

Smart guy

If you measure it based on raw quantities of people reacting, sure. The issue is that the people who are upset about this are often tastemakers, whether through their local networks of people or online. It’s like saying a tiny vocal minority of people were pissed off enough about IE to use Firefox— true at one time, but with big consequences

Talk about an unforced error on Sony's part

This and the LG TV spying scandal that's also on the front page really highlight for me how unpleasant, shitty, and invasive tech has become. Yeah, I know you can use Linux, at least for now (I do). But things are moving in a bad direction. It's almost to the point of making me, a lifelong computer dork, want to go outside and touch grass. Unthinkable.

Exquisite work. I love Point of Departure.