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It very much depends on your meeting culture. I suppose in the ideal world, everyone should be intently paying attention because the meeting was relevant and fo
by dougmwne 4y ago
It very much depends on your meeting culture. I suppose in the ideal world, everyone should be intently paying attention because the meeting was relevant and focused. In my world, meetings go on for hours, everyone invites the kitchen sink, and long egotistical monologues are the norm. Trapping me in VR for all that would be unpleasant to say the least.
- Robotbeat 4y agoI agree, which is why I think we should normalize leaving meetings.
- robertlagrant 4y agoIronically, VR might help with this, because you can leave your VR avatar listening for you :)
- dylan604 4y agoyeah, but if you leave your avatar, it just goes limp and is obvious you're not there. or, it just stands there doing that NPC awkward flailing of the arms/sighing/whatever when not doing something specific which is just as obvious. it would be my preference where you could just make it super obvious the meeting is boring AF and do a magician smoke burst when you exit the meeting. make your avatar hold up a sign that says "Why Am I Here?". maybe have your avatar start throwing money at the presenter so they can buy a clue? like, if we're going to use VR and live in the metaverse, let's do things there that we can't do IRL.
- chihuahua 4y agoMaybe Meta's monetization strategy is that for $1/minute, you can put your avatar on autopilot so it moves as if you were there, while you're in the kitchen tempering chocolate. For $2/minute, it responds to questions addressed to it with GPL3 generated speech. (Zuck_make_it_rain.gif)
- dylan604 4y agoI kind of want to do something similar but without meta. If it weren't for morals/ethics/whatever about sending company data to 3rd parties, I would love to have GPL3 respond to a subset of my emails for a few weeks just to see if anyone would notice.
- danwee 4y agoYou don't need an avatar for that. Just leave (phisically) your laptop while but stay connected (camera off).
- beowulfey 4y agoCould be worth trying to change that culture, as it is a waste of time that applies whether meetings are virtual or in person.
- dougmwne 4y agoSure, the moment I am promoted to CEO of this Fortune 500, I will send along all staff a pamphlet on effective meetings.
- lumost 4y agoI bet Language models will soon be a key feature of zoom. The Language model will serve as an auto-pilot for pointless meetings where it uses your previous history to predict when to say "nice" or "<insert rant on RAII here>", a paging system will be in place if the content of the meeting reaches a high enough perplexity that your frontal cortex is required.
- dougmwne 4y agoWhile I’m unsure if this is satire, I am all in! A pre-sentient language model would do a great job attending meetings on my behalf. It could also probably do a better job chatting about sports than I can and could send me a daily summary each evening.
- nvrspyx 4y agoThis reminded me of the episode of Silicon Valley where Gilfoye and Dinesh build chat bots to take their place for all the boring work chats. Then, the bots end up chatting with each other causing a feedback loop that overloads the building's power. I find the idea of two bots having a conversation on Zoom while both people are doing actual work hilarious.
- cercatrova 4y agoSilicon Valley, the show, is surprisingly prescient. It is too real sometimes even.
- chihuahua 4y agoMike Judge is an underrated genius: Beavis & Butt-head, King of the hill, Office Space, Idiocracy, Silicon Valley, etc.