We’ve never actually known what’s going on in Russia, ever?
There’s always so much propaganda from either us the West or them, Russia, that it is difficult to know anything.
Shout out to Russians who are just trying to have a decent life on this planet. Sorry about that y’all.
Virtual Reality is 45+ years old. In 1992, they were claiming that affordable VR would be ready in a couple years.
It is not affordable over 30 years later, nor did it take over, despite billions over billions of dollars sunk into it.
Why?
Because current engineers think that the brain is just a pair of eyes connected to a processing unit. It is not. The brain is connected to an entire body in ways that we are still learning about.
Back in the 1960s when personal computers and information technology were being formed by a team of psychologists, electrical engineers and mathematicians, they knew that computers needed physical access to themselves. They understood that as corny as it sounds, humans are One: one brain, one body. It’s all combined and intricately connected.
This is how they came up with the mouse, an input device that is still to this day the most accurate way to do well, most things on a computer. Why? Because it utilizes the wrist, a magnificent and ultra precise tool that created all the arts in the world.
What I mean is that human beings will never dissociate from their meat envelope. That is just how we’re literally wired. Full body tactile feedback will always be superior to zero tactile feedback because we’re so good at it. Thousands of years of experience on the resume.
Ever realized how incredibly fast our skins feel a change of temperature? Like, it’s basically instant. Our lives are all about tactile feedback, if you think about it: receiving a kiss, opening a door, tasting a beverage… It never stops.
This is why VR keeps failing. It disconnects us. That will not change and we won’t either.
I’m using GPT regularly and the best thing is asking a few questions after the first one, to refine and tune answers.
This is where there’s no going back to search engines: GPT is much smarter than search, giving me a summary and sources. Can’t get better than that.
The problem for me is how much I give to OpenAI. With Google, they were getting my thoughts.
OpenAI gets my reasoning.
I’m not happy about this. Yet like old days Google, GPT is so good I can’t not use it. For all my design research, it is and has been excellent at helping me out decipher a bunch of stuff. Every week.
Meanwhile I realize that I now basically don’t believe any picture on the internet. Sometimes I do, for twenty seconds when I think “no way” and then I think “Photoshop+AI, right”.
I barely trust videos and the trend is trusting them less and less. We always say that we’re visual creatures. OK, and we look at fake stuff all the time, online or in real life when we look at SZA. We ain’t right.
It adds to the current strangeness of this (sort of) post-pandemic world.
I think this was around May. After surviving a stint in true homelessness, losing my main two jobs and hiding from a new virus around, it was time to reflect and smoke some weed. I was safe. For now.
I wanted to document that. In three puffs and a dry throat I’m all smile, lmao. Then I need to stand up (my favorite position ever) and I kind of forget that there’s a camera downstairs, until I see the cat and think “hey, it might have been caught by the GoPro.”
2020 was so fucking crazy and intense Jesus fucking Christ.
No shit! Most of the earth is already unsafe for human beings. I never expected a red rock without water and barely any sun, to be hospitable.
We’re officially dumb as hell, aren’t we.
That’s what has been killing Reddit recently, and Google and FB.
Sure, those leadership teams and early employees are filthy rich but for the rest, it’s always been a bad business model. The incentive is not to provide good services, it’s to hook people up.
It’s predatory.
It’s disrespectful.
It’s manipulative.
I think the bait & switch tactics since 2004 Gmail have convinced those companies that people are pure cattle. You can lead them anywhere, regardless of what they complain about. To this day, including all tech software. Diablo 4, right now.
Look at this: almost twenty years of data-driven push toward “free+ads+IAP” models, because it’s printing money.
This had the effect of:
We need to fight this, y’all.
I was thinking about the early 20s folks the other day, beyond used to tapping screens, zipping through hills on electric scooters and a bit too focused on their image and “personal brand™”.
You know what requires touching skills, physical stamina and ability to listen? Good sex.
(sure, toys for women but for men omg it must be beyond bad rn)
What do you need in life? Money? Wrong! You need a place to live, a good one.
Therefore you need money to “create” one. Do you need to be very rich to have a good one? Wrong! What’s a good one? One in which you feel comfortable in all year long.
Building costs of said house for a couple? About two expensive electric cars.
What do you want in life? To be rich? To do what? Nothing? You’ll never need to be rich to do nothing! What do rich people do? Nothing! So do poor people! All standing in the kitchen, snacking and talking shit! Why grind for that?
Alternatively, why billionaires think about populating the moon or Mars when there’s a technical, interesting challenge of designing sustainable living conditions here on this rock? And room?
I don’t know.
Who Loves You Better just came up on my sound system and, I’m reminded how great the Isley Brothers are at making music and grooves. Mmhmm.
