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by gonehome 3y ago
No? HoloLens is an enterprise product barely advertised for public use. It’s not a new form of UX for general computing, it’s a niche. The hardware for ambient light AR also sucks, it’s why HoloLens, magic leap and such are not compelling.
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by gonehome 3y ago
I work on urbit which gives you actual control over your cloud computer and has a discord like chat as its current main application. https://tlon.io/ It’s a lot more than just a discord alternative since it’s an entire comp
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by gonehome 3y ago
anything that matters (which was implied by the rest of my comment) They can check a box and make this press release though, I guess that’s worth something.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah this isn’t beating Tesla to anything. If you constrain a system to where it’s effectively useless and declare victory, that’s worse than trying to actually solve the problem and saying you’re not there yet. It’s lowering the goal preci
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by gonehome 3y ago
Most people hold wildly inconsistent views in their head all the time, despite obvious contradictions - it’s the default human behavior. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CqyJzDZWvGhhFJ7dY/belief-in-...
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by gonehome 3y ago
The really good eye tracking seems like a big deal on the Apple device - that will feel like telepathy and I think will be significantly better than the controller nav that currently exists with meta devices. Apple's focus on productiv
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah - obviously (imo). Similarly to twitter third party api access with no ads doesn't make any sense for a business that's an ad business, it's stupid they've allowed this at all for as long as they have (and it was st
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah it’s like saying the apple iPod ripped off the creative nomad jukebox. Articles like this can just be flagged and ignored as low quality ad clickbait imo. Someone will always write one.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Urbit is pretty easy to use now too. https://tlon.io/
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by gonehome 3y ago
Usually it appears and I click it gets stuck waiting, it never appears on the other device to be accepted, or something like that. Sometimes the other device never appears despite having proper settings configured. Usually I’m trying to mov
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, I have a 50% success rate with airdrop on anything large enough that I want to use airdrop because of it. It barely works.
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by gonehome 3y ago
I can at least cash in a called shot for this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583456 Fun to see the incredulity in replies two years ago for what seems like was inevitably leading to this. Still really curious w
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by gonehome 3y ago
I was told they scramble the order of problems so they can keep the books the same but force you to buy new editions in order to have the same problem numbers at what gets assigned. Basically minimizing cost to extort more cash.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, I’m always skeptical of “it was better in the old days” type arguments (even though I recognize the aesthetic appeal of analog). People make similar claims about cars, but old cars broke down all the time and new ones are basically ap
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by gonehome 3y ago
I recognize your account too, and while I’m way less prolific I can relate to the same conversational draw and compulsion. I noticed I had it less when working in the office in the Bay Area where it was more possible to engage in these kind
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by gonehome 3y ago
I think famous not wealthy people (especially those that are victims of internet mobs) end up in hiding and it’s a pretty bad situation for them. There’s also the middle case too - I’m not sure what level of wealth Sam Harris has, but I don
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by gonehome 3y ago
You can guess that if it’s a human made interface it’s reasonable to predict we’d build it so we can communicate with it and/or give instructions (your puppy didn’t make you). It doesn’t appear out of nowhere. Current capabilities look
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by gonehome 3y ago
He’d have to be able to communicate with the cat for it to be a worthwhile metaphor to the ai in a box case and humans. If he can do that it requires one weak link human over an infinite time horizon. Humans are already terrible at preventi
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by gonehome 3y ago
If it’s not possible then yeah, there’s no risk. I just don’t find the arguments that it’s not possible very compelling. We’re constrained in all sorts of ways because of biology, natural selection, energy, etc. I find it unlikely we just h
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by gonehome 3y ago
I was also turned off by that book because I found his writing to be bad and that he did a bad job of making the case as a result. I think the underlying arguments themselves though are good.
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by gonehome 3y ago
It matters less because in the theology case it’s a lot easier to dismiss 1. - the divine religious arguments for a supernatural god are super weak so the details don’t matter. It’s much more likely humans just making up myths. With AI we’r
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by gonehome 3y ago
The when is harder to know. If it’s possible then we need to figure out alignment first (which currently doesn’t look promising). People are famously bad at predicting when right up until they have already done it. “In 1901, two years befor
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by gonehome 3y ago
I find the religious arguments for god’s existence similarly bad to the denials of unaligned ASI e-risk, but in the god case at least it doesn’t matter as much since bad epistemology there is a lot less likely to lead to human extinction. I
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, seeing how bad the rebuttals are to superintelligence e-risk really does make me feel like we’re doomed. They’re frustratingly dumb, I’d like to see some good arguments or steelman but they’re honestly very hard to find. Ultimately it
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by gonehome 3y ago
Upstream from Comcast 1gbps plan was 15mbps when I had it. Thankfully I’m now in a building with Google webpass that has 1gbps symmetric (and no data cap) - much better.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, newer build city building in SF is much quieter than Palo Alto. The constant lawn equipment in suburbia make them incredibly loud. Gas leaf blowers are banned but it doesn’t matter, they’re used anyway along with hedge trimmers. They
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by gonehome 3y ago
Sprawl is a problem, but I don’t buy that this is the main reason people complain about McMansions (I live in a condo in a dense building fwiw due to personal preference so this isn’t sour grapes). The people I know living in these large ho
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by gonehome 3y ago
I doubt it’s the equivalent money, the stuff you’re talking about (hiring master craftsmen) probably costs 5x-10x what a large house built the way you’re describing does.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, this is my takeaway whenever someone uses “McMansion” in a disparaging way - it’s mostly to sneer at some “lower class”.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah it's weird for me that the CEO bragged about it on Twitter as if it was open to everyone, when it's only open to employees? I'm in the beta but still haven't tried it because unless you live directly in the zone it

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