unicorn_cowboy

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by unicorn_cowboy 5mo ago
Someone make a Jeeves chatbot where he opines about missing the good ol' days of assisting curious strangers on the world wide web.
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by unicorn_cowboy 5mo ago
This is their recent acquisition (producer.ai) rebranded. Before the purchase, the quality of generations had been going down for a while (IMO; subjective and anecdotal). I tested multiple iterations of their chat interface and was never th
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by unicorn_cowboy 7mo ago
• Not just a Meta failure: 70+ years of VR history (including Microsoft’s Hololens flops and Apple’s Vision Pro stagnation) shows every major player slammed into the exact same wall: betting billions on “inevitable” infrastructure instead o
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
Here's a starter pack of resources: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-holographic-unive... https://www.essentiafoundation.org/ https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/ Be advi
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
It's missing the forest for the trees.
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
Materialism is not fundamental; consciousness is. This assumes materialism as fundamental.
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
Yeah, please leave the cultural analysis to anthropologists, sociologists, etc. The engineering-focused materialist way of looking at stuff like this makes my head and heart hurt.
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
You can also use this to set yourself up for success at the end of the day by closing/zero-ing out everything, and then just starting the first thing you need to do the next day. Then when you start work the next day, you've alrea
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
This author is a psycho. In a good way.
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
Can you elaborate?
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
SaaS is very much not my area of expertise, but this makes sense to me: https://x.com/DavidOndrej1/status/2019126831761572169 TLDR excerpt: - Top layer — the AI agent. The thing that actually executes the work. -
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
It's fun to live out 90s hacker fantasies. types furiously [ACCESS DENIED] types double furiously [ACCESS GRANTED] dramatic turn to camera "I'm in."
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
Can someone explain the actual use cases for this that folks are excited about? Nobody wants to be responsible for writing the film they're watching, as they watch it. Nobody wants to engage with a virtual world that has no story, narr
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
Very cute and charming!
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
I wish they would simulate the extremely slow load times to make it feel time-period accurate. You were waiting multiple seconds for images to appear before you even had any idea what you were looking at.
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
That’s a fair point. Reality Labs covers AR (Orion), neural interfaces, and the Ray-Ban partnership too. But the 'Metaverse' was the governing thesis that justified that entire strategy and burn rate. Even if the breakdown is 50&#
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VR's problem isn't friction, it's a lack of meaning: Lessons from $70B in losses(linernotesxr.substack.com)
2 points by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago|3 comments
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by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago
Key Points: • Meta lost $73B proving that infrastructure without purpose creates ghost towns. • Hardware friction is a myth: History shows users tolerate massive friction (early smartphones) if the value is clear. • Beat Saber & VRChat
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When Music Stopped Mattering: How optimizing for attention broke everything(linernotesxr.substack.com)
1 points by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago|1 comments
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When Music Stopped Mattering(linernotesxr.substack.com)
3 points by unicorn_cowboy 8mo ago|9 comments