nickwitha_k (he/him)

Yes, my edit was a bit hyperbolic. The point being that current AI/LLM companies have been, at best, encoding data that they do not have permission to use into their models.

It’s like baking a cake, you mix in flour, butter, eggs, and bake it. Once mixed and baked you can’t get the flour, butter and eggs back to their original form and the final product is completely different

It’s more like baking a cake with flour, butter, and eggs that you snagged from other people’s grocery baskets after they paid for them. Then, started selling the cakes made from said ingredients.

Ideally, none of that would matter because knowledge and data want to be free and everyone would benefit. However, we don’t live in such a world. Instead, the technology is being used almost exclusively to extract wealth from people and make the average human being’s life worse, both in the short-term by reducing their ability to support themselves and in the long-term by drastically increasing consumption of fossil fuels and potable water, putting more pressure on the biosphere.

And it’s way more impressive than the white dudes faces on stolen land.

• Signed a white dude

All eggs are ass cloaca eggs.

I can’t recall a time when I downloaded an album, took samples of the entire thing, pretended I made it without making any actual alterations, and tried to sell access to it.

Forgot that they are only able to do so because the Western capitalists have been trying to snuff out domestic organized labor and thus dumping huge sums of money into Chinese production for half a century.

A slight modification as I have new information: If you can justify it, the Xreal One might be worthwhile as they have added an ASIC to do away when the buggy software and dongle nonsense. Still not super open-source friendly (they’re not actively hostile either) but that seems to solve my biggest issue with the experience. They seem to have better quality optics as well.

I may end up getting a pair of those to replace my Nreal Airs that are held together with tape and CA glue (I’m unfortunately hard on my electronics).

No problem! My “dream” HMD would be birdbath optics with ~2k displays for each eye and probably some simple hardware upscaling. The glasses being “dumb” is a real perk. Doubling the pixels/° would make the experience that much better.

Sad. I was rooting for their weird-looking trucks, though they looked more and more like vapor-ware.

Previously, I’d have recommended Xreal Air but the company is allergic to open-source and doesn’t have a great track record of supporting their own software. At the moment, Viture seems a better bet, from those that I’m aware of. For screen replacement, the high pixels-per-degree of birdbath optics, like both use, are extremely advantageous and cause much less eye strain. And that’s while being far cheaper than waveguides or pancake optics.

The federal judges that he gets to appoint?..

That actually is something that I’ve been contemplating doing. I never use the built-in display - HMD glasses are just much nicer.