i think your error here is thinking sora and adult content are some leadership master plan; that sama sat down with accountants and signed and said “it’s time to break glass for emergence revenue” no. i know the exact people who pushed for sora, they’re artists who worked against organizational headwinds to democratize movie creation, something they love dearly. i know the exact person who pushed for adult content, they’re a professional athlete, free-sprinted, one of the most socially thoughtful people i know… who just really believes in creative freedom. there are passionate individual who pushed against all odds for what you think are top-down decisions. we are not a monoculture, and i love that.

It turns out the “Hate America” Rallies tomorrow are being funded by the billionaire who hates America the MOST. Anyone surprised? foxnews.com/politics/soros-f…

In 1994, Rolling Stone asked Steve Jobs about the internet. Interesting answer. He didn’t actually want to make any predictions: “I don’t think of the world that way. I’m a tool builder.”

With Kimmel getting canned I’m seeing lots of people talking about the hypocrisy of cancel culture. To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don’t like in an effort to get them fired. Like if Kimmel got canceled for shit he did on the Man Show that would be cancel culture. But when a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time and then that person is punished for it that’s not cancel culture. That is consequences for your actions

Knowing the endgame is useless; what matters is the path. This is especially true for the VR/AR industry. It will take a long time for VR/AR to mature. The real value lies in figuring out what to do at each step. Since technology can’t be fully mature from the start, we must constantly search for the best balance between form and capability. Early VR headsets overestimated users’ tolerance for bulky designs and were quickly corrected by the market. The glasses route, on the other hand, underestimated the appeal of the glasses form factor—so much so that something like Ray-Ban Meta, with just a few added functions, can sell very well. The problem is that people tend to swing to extremes: sometimes over-ignoring form, sometimes over-emphasizing it. Right now, I feel the pendulum is swinging toward over-emphasizing form. In the next two years, we may see a wave of glasses that look sleek but sacrifice too much capability, leading to disappointing user experiences. Meanwhile, some powerful VR headsets might actually be underrated. Objectively speaking, both form and capability are important. There’s no shortcut; only time and technological progress can fuse the two together. But human nature always prefers shortcuts and leaps. As the saying goes, people tend to overestimate what technology can achieve in one year, and underestimate what it can achieve in ten.

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Hollywood concept artist of 18 years here, many of us have tinkered with AI and hate it because it's exploitative and lazy and destroying our livelihoods. You're a YouTuber with toys and affiliate links who pivoted to AI from music three years ago to make ad dollars.