I have no doubt that some of what you say is grounded in fact and real, but as some random guy spouting conspiracy theories online, you have no credibility, and bring no evidence to the table. Who exactly is the audience you're intending to reach? Or is this just a therapy session for you?

Hobby game developer here - same thing applies. It doesn't matter how good the game you make is. If nobody knows that it exists, it won't sell, simple as that. And there are literally a few hundred games published EVERY DAY, so no you can't hope to be somehow discovered by accident or through the Steam (Epic, GOG, etc.) recommendation features. Well, not at scale. Maybe a few people will randomly find you, but without some marketing efforts, it's just that - a few.

Marketing, no matter how much we techies dislike it, is an essential part of any at-scale business. Customers need to know you exist. They need to know your product exists. They need to know your product can do something they would like.

There's a fine line between advertisement as manipulative exploitation and getting information to people interested in it. For a while, I had hopes that the Internet and search engines would solve that problem. Imagine if there were no advertisement. Anywhere. At all. But you had a magic machine on your desk or in your hands that, if you need something, can tell you where to get it. Need new dishes - here's all the shops selling dishes in the vicinity. Need a new computer - here's all the places you can look at computers and here's all the online shops who'll send them to you. Need a blowjob - here... well, you get the idea.

Unfortunately, it seems I massively underestimated how much advertisers like to keep their jobs, and the whole shit became even worse online.

You utterly misunderstand what consciousness is or, for that matter, what 99% of the universe are.

If you grind the universe to a fine powder and look at the result, you can also claim that trees don't exist. Or planets. Or, really, anything.

It is clear to everyone not a complete idiot or fanatic, that consciousness, whatever it ultimately is, is something where structure, organization, patterns and connectivity matter a whole lot. It's not just matter, it is also how that matter is organized in space and time. The exact same molecules can make a pile of trash or a car.

More than that. A simulation can do things like introduce randomness, recursion, non-trivial dependencies or emergent behaviour that are not easily expressed in equations. There's a huge area where we use computer simulations because either the equations are not known or a calculation of the equations is computationally impossible but a simulation is possible.

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.

I'm more curious how the display works. I had Google Goggles. The display was nearly impossible to see and gave me a headache going crosseyed trying. If the hardware can overlay well, and be easy to see, someone will write the software for it eventually. If it can't, then no amount of software will work.

Really the glasses itself should be dumb. Put all the smarts in a smartphone app with a plugin architecture. Have it voice controlled where you say a keyword then parse your next sentence for a command. Send the video to the phone for processing via BT, and let the app do whatever it needs to do, and individual plugins send overlays up. That's enough to get a lot of useful stuff out of it.

100 years? It’s only been 25 years since the last tech bubble burst.

DUCKING AUTOCORRECT!!!

I am going to laugh my ass off when this bubble bursts and all the dumbasses who don't know about the sitcom crash lose their shirts. Open AI has the biggest burn rate in history, it can't make enough money to make up for capex, it's funding and spending deals with Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle are circular bullshit, and the big Stargate data center won't have enough reactors to power it for over a decade. This is insane and people dumb enough to buy in deserve to lose their money.

Google canâ(TM)t put them in the USA. There isnâ(TM)t enough power for more huge AI data centers. Indiaâ(TM)s government wonâ(TM)t block solar or wind energy project like Trump will. And they have China getting ready to start building nuclear plants that will be done years before any new ones are built in the USA. Google really has to build the data centers there

The total number of warheads worldwide in the 80's was around 70,000. We're currently sitting around 12,000, with most of these in the US and Russia. So please realize that those of us who were kids in the 80's, and who watched movies like The Day After while growing up, had at least as much existential dread to deal with in elementary school back then.

Remember to put everything in perspective. There's never been a time in human history without widespread misery, and by pretty much any metric you'd much rather be alive right now than at any other time. No, it's not anywhere near perfect, and yes, there's a ton of stuff to keep working on, and yes, we do backslide sometimes, like now. But ignoring the big picture is dangerous, because it means we're at risk of repeating mistakes of the past.

For instance, it was fashionable a few years ago, particularly amongst the political left, to be against free speech. Famously it was the royal guy (prince Harry?) who said the right to freedom of speech was "bonkers". While you don't hear it so much anymore, you have to question why such a fundamental ideal of democracy was brought into question, when it had clearly been put in place for good reasons, and appears to be an important foundation of democratic principles since then. We now have a leader of the US who clearly thinks it's OK to ignore the first amendment (the whole FCC going after ABC and Kimmel) and we also have an extremist from the left who shot a guy on campus because he didn't like what he was *saying*.

Yet these existential threats, whether it's nuclear war or constitutional threats, or even the environment, have been happening constantly. It's nothing new. We fight and argue, and there's bluster and violence, but in the end we always seem to end up with better quality of life, decreasing poverty, and longer lifespans.

Now is not the time to bemoan the fact that the world is not up to your level of perfection. Now is the time to pick some particular problem that you can make better, and get to work, as did the people who came before us. Be part of the solution. Yes, nuclear weapons are scary, but nuclear power is also the solution to fossil fuels. And no, it's not a perfect solution. But it's the solution we've got. This is the real world. I'm sorry you don't like it. Nobody here has a magic wand.

It's interesting... if you drop the obesity rate, you'd think that would lower the rate of diabetes, since obesity is a risk factor for diabetes. But I suppose once you get diabetes you have it, so the rate will probably continue to climb for a while because the obesity rate is still high.

"lock-in" is the word you're looking for.

People can't switch without considerable cost in money and/or convenience. That could be as simple as using two different systems at home and at work, which adds to the mental load.

Windows has been winning for 30+ years because it's familiar shit. Everyone knows it's shit, but at least you already know the taste. Consumers know that if they use Windos their skills trained at work transfer. Businesses know that if they use Windos then new hires don't need basic computer training. Software developers know that if they support Windos, there's a huge market that runs it.

Everyone is locking everyone else into the shit, and Microsofts sits in the middle and laughs.

I would bet that there's an internal competition among the various teams how much utter crap they can put into their respective parts of the OS before the public rebels against it.

Been a non-windows user for two decades now, and don't miss it one bit. Sometimes sad if a cool game is out only on Windos, but I anyway don't have as much time anymore as I used to.

It's not just Windos, though. DOS was equally horrible. I replaced MS-DOS with Novell DOS on one of my PCs for utterly different reasons (better to run a small BBS system on) and that was miles ahead of the Microsoft shit.

It keeps getting worse because we are not the customers anymore, we are the product. Your data is sold, your user habits are monitizied, and the main reason Windows still rules the games market is so kids grow up on Windows PCs and will demand them in their jobs (businesses are the main buyers of the OS).

And probably because Bill Gates is sad if market share falls. And who can stand old men crying?

This is a real thing. If you could somehow bio-engineer a chicken that would only lay female chick eggs (or the male eggs were not viable or were easily identified after laying so they could be destroyed immediately) this would be ethically much better.