Everyone engages in the "Me vs Them" mentality about every single facet of our daily lives. Toxic.

Aw did the bad man shred your fantasy with facts?

Is the December OK? Can anyone check up on it?

But if I tell an LLM "Thanks that suggestion worked" that feedback is lost to the void. There's no upvoting, no storage that I know of applying to all other questions people ask to let the system know "yes that answer worked particularly well". So all the LLMs can go on giving out the same answers forever not really knowing they are flawed... unless someone publishes an article about it.

There's no reason why LLMs can't have feedback mechanisms. In fact they do. ChatGPT has thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. It almost definitely tracks usage of download and copy to clipboard buttons.

Well keep imagining because I see no way for that to be the case.

And with no possible unwanted outcomes. I look forward to its rapid implementation by companies.

Probably just in time to be powered by fusion energy from 3D printed reactors designed by AI.

I just find these uncritically optimistic people fascinating.

Lunch? I said LAUNCH!

I thought there would be at least a 100 million in use by now! Used by people living in their 3D printed homes?

https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/comments....

Where is this user now? I want to thank him fir years of laughs.

I've read a lot of interesting things about people getting sucked into their chatbot boyfriends and girlfriends including a woman who was paying like $200/mo. I can see Mark's cynical vision but honestly I think women are going to be the ones getting emotional connections from chatbots. The sensitive, eloquent boyfriend who always says exactly what you wanna hear; Every woman's dream!

From what I've seen in VR Chat I think young lonely guys, who are more visually oriented, will just turn into slutty anime girls and play pretend with each other. This just the natural progression of behaviors young lonely men have been engaged in online since the days of MUDs or those two dudes at your D&D game who seem totally unfazed flirting with each other as long as one of them is playing a slutty vampire.

Once upon a time I'd have found all this to be alarming but whatever, the world sucks, it's gonna get worse, do whatever makes you happy and if our dystopian society runs out of traditional family units to exploit then all the fucking better.

VR is here to stay and will only continue to grow. Business dumping money into the tech want VR to fit into two growth models and neither seem very right.

1) VR is the next smartphone: VR will not be the next smartphone any time soon. It's too bulky and if it wasn't most people wouldn't know they wanted it. Right now people are still discovering what they even want to do in VR. VR may be the next PDA where it exists for a long time before finally getting mainstream adoption eventually.

I think this is the model Zuck holds and think it's especially delusional on his part because the iPhone is what did it for PDAs and Facebook is not the sort of company to obsessively perfect a product before release the way Apple is and they're competing against Apple and Valve who are very much those sorts of companies. Meta is keeping the VR ball rolling and is on track to capture the low end of the market where they'll have intense competition. Worse yet they'll eventually have to compete with Nintendo who is great at delivering kid proof hardware at a parent acceptable price and delivering exclusive IP. I don't really see a place for Facebook sharing the kid/low-end market with a Nintendo standalone and a half dozen chinese e-waste producers.

2) VR is the next internet: This is a more reasonable take that VR will take longer to get adopted and will become a normal part of everyone's lives. VR is not the next internet because some people can't even ride in boats or read on trains and those people will be a hard problem to solve. I don't see the most motion sick portions of our population getting dragged kicking and screaming into VR the way they were for the internet. Porn and easy interaction with distant friends and family worked for the net but won't get anyone to put up with nausea and vomiting. VR will become normal but it will be a long time, if ever, before it's for everyone.

Anyhow I can only imagine how much mushroom microdosing and amphetamines it took for Meta leadership to look at Meta horizon worlds and think that it was in any place to compete with VRChat or that anyone wanted to have business meetings there. For Example: The quest pro controllers take a minute or two to even get tracking and they take like 20 minutes each for unskippable firmware updates whenever they happen... and you must update the controllers one at a time for a total of like 40 minutes. I can't imagine how a group of managers, people so locked into perpetual meetings, could ever possibly think that anyone would like to sit through them with a headset strapped to their face or that business would have any tolerance for updates and reboots being in the way of getting a meeting underway.

But whatever Zuck please keep throwing money on the fire.

Unlike the USA.... Apollo, Mission Accomplished, etc...

Is happy with artificial money.

So don't subscribe? What's wrong with a closet full of Blurays and a good OTA HD setup? With optional recorder.