I forgot Blue-ray was even a thing.

The only reason I can't insult the paper more is because of the weakness of my quantum mechanics knowledge. But from the perspective of computer science, the paper is weak and disappointing.

It's worth mentioning that a drill will quickly open most of these locks, with less skill required than a lock picker.

So it does give them control.

That's what Google as a corporation wants to do eventually. Individual developers do not.

The sad thing is you don't even realize that this sentence you wrote is a contradiction. You're a fanboy.

This isn't about putting things into an App Store that Google (or Debian) controls. This is about what YOU can put on the device that YOU bought and control.

From now on, when you are feeling that puzzling feeling, go increase your knowledge. It will help.

Bullshit. Very few people choose Apple because it doesn't allow sideloading.

There are a few people commenting on tech blogs who think Apple's walled garden keeps them safe. Those people are morons.

They say that as if it's a good thing.

And then this sentence:

Whatever does it mean for a computer to 'apprehend?' What does it mean for mathematics to apprehend? If that were real, this would be the most important CS paper of the century

That's what I got from it. They claim that some unsolved parts of physics (quantum gravity) are unsolvable. That's the main thrust of their paper. (Note that if they were right this would lead to some important new CS papers, not just some applied holographic physics papers).

We have agents that are in the real world now. AGI can operate there (if you ever figuredout how to invent it). That is no longer a limitation.

It increases programmer employment by reducing productivity.

The part that is confusing is that the OP doesn't program.

The idea is that it's always on your face and hands free, and due to the location of the display you don't need to look down- it overlays your normal field of vision with additional information (that's the entire point of AR). But yes, other than overlaying your actual field of vision there's nothing it could do that a phone couldn't.