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> I wouldn't build killing tools casually despite having, as most engineers here do No, most engineers here are perfectly fine building highly addictive apps t
by friedman23 4y ago
> I wouldn't build killing tools casually despite having, as most engineers here do
No, most engineers here are perfectly fine building highly addictive apps that are only slightly removed from slot machines and targeting them at children.
> The concept itself is not novel
Actually building it is very novel.
> It's explosive charges strapped to an helmet with a detonator
That is triggered when you lose a video game.
> the form is not particularly appealing or interesting
Given the amount of engagement and discussion it's generating I think you are clearly wrong.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoI guess it depends how much value you put on being the first. I saw the "first" AI painting sold, I saw the first drone with a gun attached, and the first drones with explosives used in warfare and I don't consider any of these art. Some things are incredibly obvious, and not in the way that you can look back at old research and misapprehend how difficult it was to create at the time, but in the sense they have been part of our psyche for years or decades and all it takes to create them physically is a bit of metaphorical glue. I don't consider that novel. I guess if someone thinks it's art then it's art, and I don't say that to denigrate it. I'm not the authority on what is art or not. I just don't get the the casual tone, the seeming lack of intent, and the deathly severity of it. It makes no sense to me.