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811.
by gfodor 5y ago
These aren't independent axes. For example, more money can make it easier to feel like you are genuinely contributing, or rationalize the idea that negative public sentiment isn't real and fake media reports.
812.
by gfodor 5y ago
I mean, that filter had its benefits, but it is also a really bad filter in many ways. Plenty of people who are smart enough to set up Trumpet Winsock also took that to mean they knew everything, and at the same time, some of the greatest m
813.
by gfodor 5y ago
Ironically just this week, I put my four year old in front of an apple 2 emulator running apple logo, and he was far more engaged and interested than any of the modern “kids learn to code” toys of today. Even the “updated” logos I found suc
814.
by gfodor 5y ago
Best MS OS, they should have just maintained this for the last 20 years.
815.
by gfodor 5y ago
Good advice. I am reconsidering right now actually.
816.
by gfodor 5y ago
In the end, the Internet made us stupid.
817.
by gfodor 5y ago
Well we are getting a metaverse, just like we are getting a crypto economy. Our choices are around the form it takes, not if it will happen. If good people sit idly by, or dismiss it, we will get the worst versions of both.
818.
by gfodor 5y ago
It is interesting that this kind of context switch for some programmers is a breath of fresh air, and for others its a horrible hack. I think the fact this is not an objectively good or bad thing has led to a lot of the tension we see in ot
819.
by gfodor 5y ago
My point isn’t that is what is happening now, I was pointing out a hypothetical that is believable enough to think may happen in the future.
820.
by gfodor 5y ago
Government already admitted to pointing Facebook to accounts to be deplatformed. Government and social media collusion is now best assumed to be going on. All that matters now is how much the companies are incentivized to push back. The ans
821.
by gfodor 5y ago
What you’re seeing could be a sign that the audience of HN has changed, or it could be that what you are referring to as “conspiracy theories” aren’t that.
822.
by gfodor 5y ago
Nothing to be concerned about, citizen. If a video is disinformation, no need to look for downvotes, YouTube’s moderators will take care of removing that dangerous content for you. Nothing to see here.
823.
by gfodor 5y ago
What you’re saying is that the artists who are currently paid for their work either will create it gratis or we can live without it. A fairly bold claim to make that this would be a worthy change, given the loss of creative work and loss of
824.
by gfodor 5y ago
It’s hard to say if the link rot will be a problem. Not to mention, many of these ownership transactions won’t be links. The point is being able to agree on something, not have access to the underlying. The latter is a somewhat orthogonal c
825.
by gfodor 5y ago
You have a fundamental misunderstanding. The point is you simply will not get certain creative works in this model. They will not be worth the opportunity cost. There is no reality where you get “no scarcity” as well as “all the creative wo
826.
by gfodor 5y ago
I think the web and Internet have some centralization obviously but they are good counterexamples to a theoretical corporate monopoly or duopoly over a computing medium. As far as “the final platform” bit, it’s an opinion but if you presume
827.
by gfodor 5y ago
I think that’s actually it’s own fallacy: presuming that one can predict the dependencies and survivorship of various elements of society in a scenario where one or two larger ones go through a disruptive transition. This is a contradiction
828.
by gfodor 5y ago
No hoops, you’ll just put your glasses on and your keyboard will just be there.
829.
by gfodor 5y ago
For a given headset there is an activation cost and presumed benefit that gets someone to use it. The activation costs will continue to trend downward as passthrough AR gets deployed and size/weight goes down, among other things, and t
830.
by gfodor 5y ago
No, you don’t need transporters to archive social presence, this is a specific measure that is quantifiable to a large degree via standardized surveys and measurements. Doesn’t require transporters, just the ability to deliver the feeling o
831.
by gfodor 5y ago
You’re just arguing at this point. The scores I’m talking about are not arbitrary, there are a few standardized measures used in social presence research to attempt to make apples to apples comparisons between communications tools attemptin
832.
by gfodor 5y ago
Possibly last man standing phenomenon after a few decades of turmoil unwinding present day nation states.
833.
by gfodor 5y ago
Frankly there are like 50 working definitions for “metaverse” at this point so it’s not really worth the energy of trying to unpack it as a way to ground an argument.
834.
by gfodor 5y ago
I wrote “feeling together in unmediated communication” on purpose. The unmediated part is the most important part of the definition.
835.
by gfodor 5y ago
You quoted half of my definition. Google it.
836.
by gfodor 5y ago
People who want to create works that can be infinitely copied, will. People who want to create works that have various kinds of cultural norms imposing scarcity, will. There is no “fight”, it’s just saying that you’d prefer less options for
837.
by gfodor 5y ago
No, we were doing full body tracking with perception neuron inertial sensors tracking 7 years ago in AltspaceVR. My guess is the zero cost option is going to be using a home mirror, as recently demoed. It can also be done with outside in ca
838.
by gfodor 5y ago
The progression from DK1 to Quest 2 proves that effective technological miracles are in the reach of Facebook’s VR group. It’s pretty insane what has been done so far.
839.
by gfodor 5y ago
Yeah I would put that into the same bucket as contact lenses: really hard to imagine tech in terms of execution, but probably possible from first principles. The invariant is basically if code is determining what photons you see, and if it
840.
by gfodor 5y ago
We spend a sizable % of US energy moving physical bodies around, so apparently people do in fact like face to face communication.

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