I still can’t believe people bought those stupid monkey digital photos
I met someone once who had “invested” in these. Like, thousands of pounds. He thought he was super clever, talked down to us because we were so far out of the loop. I do wonder what happened to him. Poor guy.
he learned nothing and is now chasing AI stonks
the only one chasing it is JENSEN.
I still don’t understand the part where some got ‘stolen’ and were held hostage…
They were held in a poorly designed browser-based crypto wallet that only weirdos know how to use, so when normies wanted in on the get rich quick scheme, they would easily get confused and authorize third parties full access to the wallet.
zuck did immeasurable harm to vr by trying to dominate the field. utter decimation of expectations. he made a fool out of all of it.
i like what i’ve seen about the steam frame so far and look forward to having one hopefully. never, not once, not ever, shall i pressure anyone else into it; it’s a personal interest, personal to ME and others who choose to adopt it.
Gee, it’s almost like pressuring people into something makes it super not enjoyable for anyone. Anywho, I’m off to Google something only to scroll past the AI generated response I didn’t ask for and can’t disable.
Kagi is right there, bro. You don’t have to keep going back to the abuser.
Yeah, I use ddg, I was more making a point.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/-ai-overview/ this one does a great job on firefox and it’s various forks.
I partially disagree. It got standalone VR much more popular. I dislike all the Facebook stuff but as far as the headset goes, it is genuinely decent. Like I personally use a Lenovo explorer so it’s about as cheap as it gets. But there are times I wish I got a quest because I could get away with wireless streaming from my PC.
It is a good compromise from all angles but I’m betting Facebook/meta is subsidizing the shit out of it.
The moment it was clear they couldn’t figure out what the “Next Big Thing” was they started throwing shit at the wall before going “well if we can’t find the next best thing, we’ll force it on them!”
That’s how we got to where we are with AI.
To be left behind is nothing someone should be afraid.
Actually, can they just leave me alone?
I’m sure they have an app for that.
Oh boy don’t start me on cr’apps. It’s insane how even working at a grocery store requires an andriod or ios. It would be one thing if they provided you a phone or whatever like they did when I worked in JcPenis. I can’t wait to get a holiday job and then ask how do I install that on my linux phone.
Ageing a really funny experience. As a young person being left behind like that was unthinkable. I’d do anything to not get left behind. Now that I am a lot older I couldn’t care less if I get left behind. I’ve found what makes me happy, I don’t need to keep up anymore. It’s so freeing.
FOMO comes along a lot when you’re younger.
Then you MO a lot, for various reasons, and you realize it’s not a big deal.
If you don’t MO, then you never develop the FO, and then next thing you know, you’re in a FAFO loop.
I’m in the ROMO phase. Relief of missing out.
cue Losing My Edge!
Even if every developer has a max subscription and uses it to mostly or completely automate their coding activities…how many people is that? A few hundred thousand? Where are these supposed revenues going to come from?
Well, first of all, the max subscription is going to cost 10k a month, so jot that down
Hah, and then nobody will buy it. They tried to up token prices earlier this year and were forced to go back to selling $10000 of compute for $100 in like a month because usage dropped off.
Don’t you worry! AI is gonna think of something…/s
Not arguing your point, but a few hundred thousand…?
If you’re going to be making an argument, at least get the most basic of your facts right.
Globally there are about 40-50 million software engineers. A hell of a lot more than a few hundred thousand. 1/10th of that is in the U.S.
I was guessing, sure, but apparently so were you:
https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-data-playground/
Even if the numbers are what you’re saying they are…and the same number of full-time developers transition to become full-time prompters (doubtful), and every one of them buys a $100 a month subscription that’s only 60 some odd billion a year. They’re projecting revenues to grow into the trillions per year. Literally how?
My clients have accountants, pms, service dept using claude too. for what I do not know. Having said that, I agree I am not sure how this money pit will make money. the plan seems to be nvidia to keep dumping money into ai companies and then the ai companies from nvidia…
It’s painfully obvious to me as a (reluctant) daily user of these things that most people will have no use for it.
Maybe there are some people for whom the barrier to entry for software development was that they didn’t want to learn a programming language but were otherwise very technical and wanted to create software, but that seems like it’s a small amount of people.
Aside from the coding itself, developing software with Claude has all of the same problems developing software without it had.
There are also new risks to developing software with it, because among other things it further siloes developers (into teams of one + chatbot).
I’m also a reluctant user as well. I just got my degree and wanted to change careers. Am now like should I put experience with claude code in my resume or not lol. Its a weird time. Id rather do everything by hand but boss wants things fast.
I don’t think people have figured out yet that the coding was not the hard part of most software development. Maybe it is when you’re really junior or unimaginative, but it it’s more about communication issues, building the “right thing”, testing, etc. etc. forever and Claude hasn’t solved much or any of that (and has made some of it worse).
who is the first guy? i know the 2nd one is the zuckerborg, and sam altman is the 3rd one.
Is it Will Entriken?
Possibly Jimmy Fallon
That’s a fantastic caricature of Zuckerberg.
and every single time an idea that could’ve been genuinely worthwhile with enough time to gestate got rushed out and smothered by lame ass realization.
Is it still possible to be in the Metaverse? Can I live my xbox360 graphics dreams and walk around the virtual McDonalds headquarters?
Second Life is still online.
College professors from the early 2000s rejoice - your future still exists
your future still exists
future is Mount and Blade!
I know it exists allready for a very long time. But somehow I always forget about that. I don’t think I ever even tried it.
it was kinda cool around the same time OG WoW launched and up until late 2000s. After that it fell by a wayside because it was basically a bunch of chatrooms disguised as MMO. The only thing really worth checking out is the Chris Marker’s space - there’s a Youtube presentation about it
To be fair, crypto only enabled scams, NFTs imploded because of how useless they are and the metaverse seems like a dystopia to most people. AI on the other hand has changed the way I do my job significantly. It’s not just a promise, it’s a genuinely powerful tool.
Its not just ___ its ____.
But fr, in academic fields its certainly helpful to have super human pattern recognition. In most fields, however, its just slop generation. Creative fields and now even code are being flooded with garbage and I dont think we’ll be able to fix it. Sure, some places are benefiting, but on the whole its just a massive black hole of hand-holding and flooding that we’ll be cleaning up for decades.
That is true job security. Being able to undo everyone else’s screwups. Such work kept me gainfully employed for 45 years.
“It’s not just a promise, it’s a genuinely powerful tool.”
Methinks you’ve spent too much time with GenAI LLMs or are a bot yourself. “It’s not x, it’s y”
I don’t know, it’s probably save me a couple hundred hours so far. Maybe more. It is genuinely incredibly powerful for coding (When used correctly)
Sorry, complete non sequitur, is the Hyperion in your username a Dan Simmons reference?
Nah, the Greek Titan. Worth reading?
I think there are some very cool images, but overall it’s not all that deep. I’d recommend Iain M Banks (say, The Algebraist) for an author trying for something similar and hit it out of the park.
Careful, the Shrike might just take offense.
a genuinely powerful tool.
As is a hammer. The issue is when you treat the solution to every problem as a nail.
LLMs are also great scam enablers.
Mainly the companies themselves. Id say 95%+ of their regular users are only negatively affected by them
“Guns don’t kill people, people do” level of fallacy. Gubs enable people to do it, as do LLMs enable companies to dial up the spam abf scams. Companies haven’t changed, LLM are the change and largely not to the better.
Ahem: “ChatGPT, anthropic, and the like are scamming their customers and provide a negative experience”. I was not placing the blame on scam companies, simply pointing out AI as a concept atm is like 95% scam and 5% stuff we can do anyways
Ah ok.
If LLMs weren’t a tool to extract knowledge from people and dumb them down while preventing them from accessing wealth and they were environmentally sustainable, then I could see them as a useful tool. I don’t want to boil the planet so that an LLM can generate the minutes of yet another unnecessary meeting, I want not to have to hand in minutes of unnecessary meetings.
The metaverse twist was certainly useless and realized in the most uninsipred soulless way, but vr otherwise has some utility and can be entertaining to a niche.
AI as so far realized has some utility, but a handful of asshats are similarly supremely obnoxious about it, and in my experience way more people are being obnoxious about it than it is useful.
cryptos amazing, I can pay people without President Donald J Trump having access to my payment records online
Isn’t Trump the self proclaimed crypto president? Isn’t crypto the main source of his family’s wealth by now?
I’ve never seen any price displayed in Dogecoin, Safemoon or CumRocket, nor have I ever been offered Shiba, Bitcoin or Monero for anything. It’s been almost 20 fucking years and you can’t pay shit with crypto. The only thing that works perfectly in crypro is paying bribes to Trump by buying his own shitcoin, which many sketchy rich people have done. No, this is not the salvation you are looking for, it only makes everything worse.
counterpoint: you can buy diy hrt with crypto
And he can use it to get bribes more easily with the shitcoins they pump out every few months.
Asked like this, I might actually prefer being left behind, thank you.
PCVR mods are amazing though
Yep. Just stay away from the Meta headsets. They are cheaper than the competition for a reason.
Yes! Yes, please? If this is your vision of the future then I want to be left behind, playing and laughing outside with my friends and neighbours.
ive been in the back of the line my entire life, so not a big thing
At this point I think the future is your phone on your tv.
It’s the path of least resistance for computer illiterate masses.
