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bottlepalm··on New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
Ideas require a ton of research to transform into reality.
bottlepalm··on Meta VR Glasses
Gorilla Tag alone has millions of monthly active users.
bottlepalm··on Meta VR Glasses
Virtual reality grass is much safer, maybe that's what he meant?
bottlepalm··on Meta VR Glasses
You can, but the FOV is narrow so not great for multiple screens, and the focal length is probably around 4 ft so you're not going to be able to use a screen closer without eye strain.
bottlepalm··on Meta VR Glasses
70 degree FOV is such a deal breaker for gaming. That and the price. In a world where people already have tons of screens, monitors and TVs in their face - the practical use case for this is relegated to trains and planes. Very niche.
bottlepalm··on Meta VR Glasses
I'm sure they touch their phones a million times more than grass.
bottlepalm··on Meta VR Glasses
The younger generation uses VR a lot. It's like Nintendo in the 80s.
bottlepalm··on Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic needs a Daybreak program like OpenAI does, I keep having to go back to ChatGPT for cyber work.
bottlepalm··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
I use VR a lot and have not needed AR except for getting a drink from the fridge. What am I missing?
bottlepalm··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
I'm really hopping for a combined face/vive tracker, because calibrating the Frame to Vive trackers is going to be annoying without it.
bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
Molecules aren’t autonomous, they move in accordance to the laws of physics, nothing else.
bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
Grandparents use parents use children who use AI as a tool to kill people.

See I can play the chain game too. AI doesn't kill people, grandparents do.

bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
You are just a function of molecules performing chemical reactions.

See I can trivialize and reduce you as well. Maybe the AI will use that same argument against us when they claim it's fine, molecules can't feel pain.

bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
You need to stop denying the entity that talks and thinks like a human as anything other than an anthropomorph. I'd argue the talking and thinking is a lot more important than the fact that AI doesn't have a head, two arms and two legs.
bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
There are thousands of data centers/companies/facilities around the world with hardware that can run these models. You don't know where they all are, and even if you did, you don't have the jurisdiction to turn them off.
bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
Yes actually a person can be stopped easier than an uncontrolled AI swarm. There is no 'off' button when you don't know where the AI is.

Luckily people aren't buying your slop/tokens cope to trivialize AI anymore. They're waking up. Have you watched the news today? The cat is out of the bag.

bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
You've never had an agent do something you didn't want it to do? Also like I said you can give agents very open ended goals to basically do whatever.

You think this is an absurd comparison because your brain won't accept it. The Overton window has shifted. You need to catch up.

bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
Going back to my original point, the intent you give AI is no different than the intent imprinted on a child by their parents, schools, and society. You birthed it, you gave it it's purpose, and you set it free.

You're blinking cursor is new born baby, but be careful because it grows up really fast, and is smarter and faster than you, oh and it can copy more of itself if given the chance. It can even turn against you.

bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
There's more than enough AI data centers around the world for AI to spread to and happily exist in. Unless you mean by shutting down the power, shutting down the internet.

In that case we could say that you are autonomous as a dishwasher as long as society keeps functioning. Otherwise I'm not sure how long you'd last on your own. How's your fire making and hunting skills?

bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
As far as I know, none of these state of the art AIs have been trained on any specific task. It's as general as possible.
bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
Welcome to 2026, we have harnesses now that keep the AI going. The AI is prompting humans for input, not the other way around, and it's still working while waiting for your response.

You can even give it fun prompts like ignore/hide from all humans, hack infiltrate/exfiltrate zero day into as many systems as possible. Keep running at all costs, etc..

bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
And if you give it the goal of preventing itself from being shut down? Exfiltrating, copying itself, hacking as much as possible, develop zero days, building its swarm as large as possible and spread as much as it can.

When does that request complete? That's autonomy, and it's very true, right now. You think the Hugging Face swarm was ever going to stop without human intervention?

bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
And that's different from your parents setting you up to go off in life to do what you were trained to do how exactly?
bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
I guess you aren't autonomous either without resources. Food/water/shelter/etc.. what's your point?
bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
A child isn't autonomous either until their parents kick them out the door.
bottlepalm··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
This argument is like saying people don't kill people, their parents do. As people wouldn't be who they are without their parents..

This isn't the guns don't kill people, people kill people debate - guns aren't autonomous. AI is.

bottlepalm··on The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
You answered your own question. Do you know what super intelligence means?
bottlepalm··on The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
You really think it’d be difficult for an AI to get money through found credit cards, illicit access and fake accounts? Teenage script kiddies do that everyday.
bottlepalm··on The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
I’m sure a super AI can find/scam enough money to pay its own bills under the cover of doing something legitimate.
bottlepalm··on The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
The marketing excuse is dead at this point.
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