https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-reality-vr-layoffs
I've still got an early oculus rift. Not the earliest dev kit, but an early rift.
The same year, I bought a crappy 3d printer.
Since then, I haven't bought many vr games, and my VR goggles are in a tote in the garage. It's cool tech, but it's anti-addictive tech. It makes you sick to your stomach. It blocks out everything you see. It blocks out everything you hear. It makes you look silly and you know it.
It was never going to be a common technology. Not like a smart phone.
Even as an industrial technology, nobody will be living in VR. "I'm an architect!" Great, you can walk around in your design for 15 minutes after spending hours doing other work to get there. "I can have a meeting in the metaverse!" You're going to spend thousands of dollars to have a virtual reality meeting that could be a real life meeting that could be a zoom meeting that could be a phone call that could be an email?
Future iterations could work. A very limited augmented reality, or an extremely flexible transparent augmented reality such as what I describe in Future Sepsis. In that book, neural integration technology would take augmented reality objects and seamlessly place them in the real world, so a trivial amount of energy could replace manufactured trinkets or other wasteful uses of matter, but that's a much different thing, and metaverse is more or less orthoganal to that idea. A future generative AI model running on efficient future hardware could basically create unlimited virtual stuff to the extent that some people never turn off their AI and never think about what is physical vs. what is virtual. That's going to need orders of magnitude of growth in every tech required, we won't see it in my lifetime.
The 3d printer is still useful -- I finished off a roll of plastic yesterday, over a decade after I built my first 3d printer. My sons crib had design flaws and needed some little plastic supports I designed and printed, and it'll just be part of our lives now. The thing is, the printer isn't something I need to use every day. I just go to it when I need it, and sometimes it's just the right tool for the job, a I don't need to keep my printer running every moment I use a print. My kid sleeps in his modified bed for 8 hours every night. My laptop desk has a printed flange that holds the power bar, and a printed clip to hold the rotating desk parallel, and it's been like that for years. My water bottle has a printed handle, and it's just part of my daily life. Nothing similar came out of VR.
I've still got an early oculus rift. Not the earliest dev kit, but an early rift.
The same year, I bought a crappy 3d printer.
Since then, I haven't bought many vr games, and my VR goggles are in a tote in the garage. It's cool tech, but it's anti-addictive tech. It makes you sick to your stomach. It blocks out everything you see. It blocks out everything you hear. It makes you look silly and you know it.
It was never going to be a common technology. Not like a smart phone.
Even as an industrial technology, nobody will be living in VR. "I'm an architect!" Great, you can walk around in your design for 15 minutes after spending hours doing other work to get there. "I can have a meeting in the metaverse!" You're going to spend thousands of dollars to have a virtual reality meeting that could be a real life meeting that could be a zoom meeting that could be a phone call that could be an email?
Future iterations could work. A very limited augmented reality, or an extremely flexible transparent augmented reality such as what I describe in Future Sepsis. In that book, neural integration technology would take augmented reality objects and seamlessly place them in the real world, so a trivial amount of energy could replace manufactured trinkets or other wasteful uses of matter, but that's a much different thing, and metaverse is more or less orthoganal to that idea. A future generative AI model running on efficient future hardware could basically create unlimited virtual stuff to the extent that some people never turn off their AI and never think about what is physical vs. what is virtual. That's going to need orders of magnitude of growth in every tech required, we won't see it in my lifetime.
The 3d printer is still useful -- I finished off a roll of plastic yesterday, over a decade after I built my first 3d printer. My sons crib had design flaws and needed some little plastic supports I designed and printed, and it'll just be part of our lives now. The thing is, the printer isn't something I need to use every day. I just go to it when I need it, and sometimes it's just the right tool for the job, a I don't need to keep my printer running every moment I use a print. My kid sleeps in his modified bed for 8 hours every night. My laptop desk has a printed flange that holds the power bar, and a printed clip to hold the rotating desk parallel, and it's been like that for years. My water bottle has a printed handle, and it's just part of my daily life. Nothing similar came out of VR.
[admin mode] power failure due to electrical repairs. Back up now. One huge win that came out of this is I created a script to handle changes to ip, and script immediately operated as designed, so DNS came up a lot faster.
Since it's Beverly hills, I'd want all the high technology security gear, because if just one of those kids has anything happened to them the state of California is going to get sued so hard it'll revert back to Mexico.
The bottom of the list.... Talking her attractive female friends into threesomes. That tracks. Good hobby.
I actually read about this yesterday, good science is a son of a bitch. It takes idea that you hold dear, and puts it in a blender and it turns out most things don't survive.
Quantum physics takes Newtonian physics and proves it completely wrong, to the extent that it basically breaks modernist epistemology. It proves we don't live in A clockwork universe.
If something that fundamental can be broken by good science, whatever you hold dear will be under threat as well. That's how you know it's working.
Quantum physics takes Newtonian physics and proves it completely wrong, to the extent that it basically breaks modernist epistemology. It proves we don't live in A clockwork universe.
If something that fundamental can be broken by good science, whatever you hold dear will be under threat as well. That's how you know it's working.
China Birth Rate Falls To Lowest Since 1949 https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/144215/china-birth-rate-falls-to-lowest-since-1949?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Just make sure you don't make the mistake that western authors do -- only middle-aged women want to read smut about the mechanics of the sex act.
One of the only books that I ever actually deleted from my Kindle library was a story about a weak summoner who got strong which ended in an explicit sex scene.
Even the webnovel of redo of healer didn't get too much into detailed mechanics of what is where when.
One of the only books that I ever actually deleted from my Kindle library was a story about a weak summoner who got strong which ended in an explicit sex scene.
Even the webnovel of redo of healer didn't get too much into detailed mechanics of what is where when.
Trump did the same sort of stuff to canada, and we did the same sort of retarded mean girls bullshit. It didn't work, because it turns out we need them more than they need us.
If Europe broke with the US, first thing they'd have to negotiate is Ukraine's surrender.
I very much doubt that there will be a hostile takeover in the sense of troops on the ground, but in the New York businessman sense of a hostile takeover, I can absolutely see it happening. He doesn't need to put a single soldier in harms way, just play hardball and make them an offer they can't refuse.
Now will he successfully do that? No clue.
If Europe broke with the US, first thing they'd have to negotiate is Ukraine's surrender.
I very much doubt that there will be a hostile takeover in the sense of troops on the ground, but in the New York businessman sense of a hostile takeover, I can absolutely see it happening. He doesn't need to put a single soldier in harms way, just play hardball and make them an offer they can't refuse.
Now will he successfully do that? No clue.
That cat doesn't even look like Hitler. That's a fu Manchu or kaiser moustache, not a charlie chaplain moustache.
For much of US history, what today we call a penny would buy what we today call a dollar worth of goods.
A penny could buy you a newspaper, or a piece of candy, or a small food item. A lot of things were five cents, in the same way that a lot of things today are between 3 and 5 dollars.
Inflation doesn't look so bad because technology drove the price of a lot of big ticket items down, but if that were the case, why isn't a newspaper .30 cents like the cpi suggests? Why is it almost nothing is 30 cents, and even very few things are a dollar?
Really goes to show you how much our currencies have lost their value in the past 100 years.
A penny could buy you a newspaper, or a piece of candy, or a small food item. A lot of things were five cents, in the same way that a lot of things today are between 3 and 5 dollars.
Inflation doesn't look so bad because technology drove the price of a lot of big ticket items down, but if that were the case, why isn't a newspaper .30 cents like the cpi suggests? Why is it almost nothing is 30 cents, and even very few things are a dollar?
Really goes to show you how much our currencies have lost their value in the past 100 years.
I mean, probably not that fascist free. Spain was one of the longest running fascist regimes, only liberalizing once Franco's successor decided running a fascist dictatorship didn't sound like a fun time. There could certainly be a timeline where Spain is still fascist, and I'm sure there's still living people who wouldn't have a problem with a return to 1974.
Trump should declare himself a Muslim so all these Europeans have to jail themselves.
Picked up a dead tree copy of literally, I'll grab the others too.
Nobody is coming to save us, we can only save ourselves.
Nobody is coming to save us, we can only save ourselves.
Is the panel displayed if you don't have an account? I want to support fellow freesiders.
I think the most interesting thing is realizing what the Pharisees are intended to represent. Their greatest sin is mindless adherence to the rules without proper concern for what is just, or what is true.
There's obviously direct parallels with today. A lot of people are so focused on following arbitrary rules that they don't care about the justice or truth of their actions, only that they're following the rules.
And of course some people misread that criticism and assume that it means we never have to follow the rules, but the reality is of course we need to follow rules, but we also need to use our brains to make sure that the application of the rules is both just and true.
There's obviously direct parallels with today. A lot of people are so focused on following arbitrary rules that they don't care about the justice or truth of their actions, only that they're following the rules.
And of course some people misread that criticism and assume that it means we never have to follow the rules, but the reality is of course we need to follow rules, but we also need to use our brains to make sure that the application of the rules is both just and true.
The market this year has made me feel like a genius, which shows it is probably broken.
The opposite.
In the Soviet Union, the stalinists hated nobody more than the trotskyies. Both are retarded commies.
Fascism and national socialism are both modernist revolutionary movements. Mussolini was an important part of Italys socialist movement, and Hitler openly stated he utilized ideas directly from Marx. Marx was heavily informed by the French revolution under the Jacobins which led to the reign of terror and ultimately saw a monarch and aristocracy reinstalled in a couple decades. They're all kissing cousins.
The winning move against the modernists isn't to become another breed of modernist they hate, it's to surpass modernism and embrace all the things it rejects, such as transcendence, irrationality, and the inherent recognition that not only can't all things be centrally controlled, many things shouldn't be.
In the Soviet Union, the stalinists hated nobody more than the trotskyies. Both are retarded commies.
Fascism and national socialism are both modernist revolutionary movements. Mussolini was an important part of Italys socialist movement, and Hitler openly stated he utilized ideas directly from Marx. Marx was heavily informed by the French revolution under the Jacobins which led to the reign of terror and ultimately saw a monarch and aristocracy reinstalled in a couple decades. They're all kissing cousins.
The winning move against the modernists isn't to become another breed of modernist they hate, it's to surpass modernism and embrace all the things it rejects, such as transcendence, irrationality, and the inherent recognition that not only can't all things be centrally controlled, many things shouldn't be.
I've written before about how I realized that the idiocracy in the movie is just one form of idiocracy, and not the most dangerous one.
You can have the populist anti-intellectual idiocracy, but typically that's not that clever and knows it isn't and doesn't want to do much more than live life.
The pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy, that's the dangerous one. In such a case, they take on the trappings of intelligence, but without actually being intelligent. And the thing is, such idiocracy does think it deserves to rule the world.
In the end of the movie, they use water instead of energy drink to fix the crops, but can you imagine a parallel universe sequel where they refuse to allow them to water the plants with water instead of energy drink because there's no peer reviewed study saying plants don't crave electrolytes?
In a postmodern sense, the pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy becomes a simulacrum of the simulation of what intelligent people once did, but without any of the things that made those actions intelligent. It becomes an epistemic cage from which they cannot escape.
Ironically, the many people lamenting how many stupid people are out there hide these pseudo-intellectual elitists who aren't necessarily any smarter than the people they're attacking, but they wear the clothes of the intelligent so they can pretend they're not "one of those people".
This relates to a post I wrote but didn't send earlier today, about the easiest way to destroy science: Don't paint scientists as the bad guy, just hop in and stop using science to seek truth you don't like and start using it to prove you're right. Once you start using things like p-hacking to get the results you want rather than chasing the results that are true, science isn't meaningful anymore.
Science proved a bunch of stuff the establishment didn't want to prove, such as heliocentrism and evolution, but it even proved a bunch of stuff the scientists themselves didn't want to prove -- Quantum Physics and relativity proving that Newtonian physics are not correct essentially destroyed the image of a clockwork universe the modernist epistemology relied upon, and some very high level scientists left the field shortly after.
You can have the populist anti-intellectual idiocracy, but typically that's not that clever and knows it isn't and doesn't want to do much more than live life.
The pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy, that's the dangerous one. In such a case, they take on the trappings of intelligence, but without actually being intelligent. And the thing is, such idiocracy does think it deserves to rule the world.
In the end of the movie, they use water instead of energy drink to fix the crops, but can you imagine a parallel universe sequel where they refuse to allow them to water the plants with water instead of energy drink because there's no peer reviewed study saying plants don't crave electrolytes?
In a postmodern sense, the pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy becomes a simulacrum of the simulation of what intelligent people once did, but without any of the things that made those actions intelligent. It becomes an epistemic cage from which they cannot escape.
Ironically, the many people lamenting how many stupid people are out there hide these pseudo-intellectual elitists who aren't necessarily any smarter than the people they're attacking, but they wear the clothes of the intelligent so they can pretend they're not "one of those people".
This relates to a post I wrote but didn't send earlier today, about the easiest way to destroy science: Don't paint scientists as the bad guy, just hop in and stop using science to seek truth you don't like and start using it to prove you're right. Once you start using things like p-hacking to get the results you want rather than chasing the results that are true, science isn't meaningful anymore.
Science proved a bunch of stuff the establishment didn't want to prove, such as heliocentrism and evolution, but it even proved a bunch of stuff the scientists themselves didn't want to prove -- Quantum Physics and relativity proving that Newtonian physics are not correct essentially destroyed the image of a clockwork universe the modernist epistemology relied upon, and some very high level scientists left the field shortly after.