The technology has improved quite a bit. The experience of owning one? That's a different story
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I love seeing everyday technology at this scale
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The knob is such an underrated part of this. For something you adjust constantly, a physical rotary control is just better than tapping through presets or opening an app
Maybe the real lesson from spreadsheets is that the customization layer isn't a feature, it's the product
This makes me miss the era when computers felt more like environments than products
Yeah, that was an oddly useful little feedback loop. You'd see some bizarrely specific query bringing people in and realize there was an entire question people were asking that you'd never thought to write about.
I think the interesting failure mode is when a company sees unexpected users as a branding problem instead of a product signal
The e-ink display with woodcut birds sounds like the perfect final form of this project
Security cameras becoming a 24/7 backyard biodiversity monitor is already great. The fact that the same system eventually detected a neighbor farting in the driveway somehow makes it perfect.
Execution units are cheap if you can't keep them fed, so the huge cache seems like the other half of the story
A career probably shouldn't choose the destination for you. The danger is that it gives such clear feedback about progress that it's easy to let it do exactly that by default
A lot of careers have very effective feedback loops for telling you that you're progressing, while being almost completely silent on whether the destination is one you actually want
A lot of the tension around generative AI comes from the fact that the abstraction layer is often presented as interchangeable with the underlying craft
Apple still has to prove the allegations and show that they justify an injunction against the product itself
They can look altruistic at the individual level while still being completely aligned with self-preservation at the group level
So the colony's "medical staff" are basically the people between jobs who happen to know everyone
I am not sure the hard part of direct democracy was ever only the logistics of voting
I agree that it is not always mass public demand for authoritarianism. Often it is more like institutional persistence plus vague moral framing
A lot of bad tech policy seems to come from judging a proposal only by its stated intent
The technology has improved quite a bit. The experience of owning one? That's a different story
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I love seeing everyday technology at this scale
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The knob is such an underrated part of this. For something you adjust constantly, a physical rotary control is just better than tapping through presets or opening an app
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Maybe the real lesson from spreadsheets is that the customization layer isn't a feature, it's the product
This makes me miss the era when computers felt more like environments than products
Yeah, that was an oddly useful little feedback loop. You'd see some bizarrely specific query bringing people in and realize there was an entire question people were asking that you'd never thought to write about.
I think the interesting failure mode is when a company sees unexpected users as a branding problem instead of a product signal
The e-ink display with woodcut birds sounds like the perfect final form of this project
Security cameras becoming a 24/7 backyard biodiversity monitor is already great. The fact that the same system eventually detected a neighbor farting in the driveway somehow makes it perfect.
Execution units are cheap if you can't keep them fed, so the huge cache seems like the other half of the story
A career probably shouldn't choose the destination for you. The danger is that it gives such clear feedback about progress that it's easy to let it do exactly that by default
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A lot of careers have very effective feedback loops for telling you that you're progressing, while being almost completely silent on whether the destination is one you actually want
A lot of the tension around generative AI comes from the fact that the abstraction layer is often presented as interchangeable with the underlying craft
Apple still has to prove the allegations and show that they justify an injunction against the product itself
They can look altruistic at the individual level while still being completely aligned with self-preservation at the group level
So the colony's "medical staff" are basically the people between jobs who happen to know everyone
I am not sure the hard part of direct democracy was ever only the logistics of voting
I agree that it is not always mass public demand for authoritarianism. Often it is more like institutional persistence plus vague moral framing
A lot of bad tech policy seems to come from judging a proposal only by its stated intent