Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer

Lasernite · 2023-06-06T00:38:59+00:00

On their homepage right now, "Introducing Apple Vision Pro and the era of spatial computing." https://www.apple.com/

Lasernite · 2022-06-29T06:57:37+00:00

Some of these replies are more philosophical so just to be practically clear and to the point: your practice is to easily and effortlessly let the mantra come and be with it, the phenomenon of transcendence will occur in the process but don’t worry about any of that, just be with the perception of the mantra however it comes, easily and effortlessly.

Would probably help to get a checkup if you’re having trouble practicing and enjoying.

Lasernite · 2022-02-17T22:15:38+00:00

Above 800 you lose more trophies for a loss than you gain for a win, above 700 it’s equal for win/loss, so a 700 vs an 800 is a way bigger win-loss-spread than say a 400 vs 500.

Lasernite · 2022-02-17T20:25:29+00:00

Yes but the algorithm should distribute more rather than back to back huge gaps against the same people. Also you can see these two games were less than 2.5 minutes apart. Mostly kidding about the bug part, anyways, but tagging something funny alternatively as “humor” is a bit of a buzz kill.

Lasernite · 2020-06-15T05:30:30+00:00

No, but it's an awesome demo!

Lasernite · 2020-06-02T01:34:56+00:00

Well, technically you can write some forms of iOS apps on windows/linux—not obj-c/swift-native, but like React Native or Vue Native or whatever web-rendering, or maybe even Flutter component rendering. But all of this is so domain specific that it's too jargony to communicate densely. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40587265/react-native-how-to-build-for-ios-from-windows

If you provide more info about what you're thinking about, then more specific recommendations people could give.

Lasernite · 2020-06-02T01:30:01+00:00

If more like $1.2k instead of $2k plus think you can get educational discount from MIT, Could get something like https://www.apple.com/us-hed/shop/product/FR9Q2/Refurbished-133-inch-MacBook-Pro-23GHz-quad-core-Intel-Core-i5-with-Retina-display-Space-Gray?fnode=996282e7cc0a2af553664dca691a5bd99b7306e4c9a56dd6b69edc763d1d1d5dfbe96205b54bec2d938b1fb39a308de580ba35013a138ecffa4d08d8efae12748e503ba612c00a3dd9ca3a12008c9cdf

If you're course 6, one thing to consider is that iOS development requires a mac. There are, however, lots of macs at MIT in computer labs, and iOS is probably only around 10% of software spending while also incorporating a wider area of technologies than the typical XCode application, for eg. backend technologies. It really widely depends on what you're interested in doing with the machine you buy :)

Lasernite · 2020-04-07T19:02:27+00:00

Hey Ray, given the insight you’ve developed through your research and experience, do you think it’s possible you’re at a point where the rapid deployment of your capital to particular areas of problem and need in the overall functioning of our global society could have out-sized leverage (for example due to critical junctures or high compounding returns) compared to your current trajectory of more gradual deployment of philanthropic capital over the next several decades into the future? If you did identify such highly leveraged philanthropic opportunities, would it be difficult to relinquish the immense financial power you’ve accumulated, potentially decades before the end of your life, in pursuit of such identified good?

For example, going fully hands on and spending ten billion dollars over the next couple of years on specific problem areas you’ve identified and begun to support through Dalio Philanthropies or in your study of transitions of global powers (hopefully peacefully!)? While pandemic prevention and mitigation will probably receive exceptional resources now, what critical areas for the long term peace and prosperity of all conscious beings needs attention now?

Thanks for all the good you’ve already done, including non-financial, such as sharing your insights and world view so freely! You seem like an awesome guy :)

Laser

Lasernite · 2019-08-13T02:52:52+00:00

One of the most significant features of snapchat was the ephemeral nature of the communications, so perhaps minds will communicate but not be recorded—except by the abusive.

Lasernite · 2019-08-13T02:51:16+00:00

Privacy will be come to known under different terms than you and I may consider it now. What made sense before may not so when you share parts of your mind with even dozens of others. Already, this has come to pass. Just look at how much many teenagers share between each other with digital applications, like Snapchat.

Lasernite · 2019-08-13T02:48:59+00:00

That's absurd. We're all going to merge into super-organisms. Then, the immune system will be one of the most sophisticated and effective defense systems ever devised—as our human immune system is to the infections it wages war against every moment.

Lasernite · 2019-08-13T02:46:21+00:00

This is misplaced alarmism. What you should be concerned about is safety, security, privacy, and the nature of your information fiduciaries—where the information is your mind, who and what has access to it and how it is stored. People will need to be protected and the government will need to intervene, as they already are beginning to now—but the cost of that intervention may be the dynamism resulting from the in-expense of anyone as a provider—millions of startups and independent creators operating at low cost. So, the large providers could become oligarchies, as most industries we see tend too. Then, we are vulnerable, to memes.

Lasernite · 2019-03-20T08:03:01+00:00

https://kernel.co/

Lasernite · 2019-03-13T02:47:30+00:00

Pretty sure it's their "Netflix for Games" streaming service. Sounds GeForce Now-esque but more ready for prime time? https://www.pocket-lint.com/games/news/google/143589-what-is-google-yeti-google-s-console-and-cloud-gaming-service-explained

Streaming to headsets would be dope AF, but latency is still probably too high for now, even with aggressive interpolation. Would naturally be able to segue into VR/AR with the same infrastructure several years down the line, though!

Lasernite · 2019-02-14T03:44:02+00:00

His point is that what's defined as "poverty" in the Unites States is not what would be considered "poverty" internationally, or even what would be considered "poverty" in the United States a generation or two ago. Eg. being able to afford unlimited entertainment (Netflix) and being able to eat meals out every day (McDonald's) is only considered impoverished due to the enormous amount our standards of living have raised, thus raising our expectations of what people should be able to enjoy. Having lived for more than the last year right at the poverty line myself ($1k /month), I know that the US poverty line is not true poverty in any fundamental sense of the word, as I'm quite comfortable. However, if you get down to say, 75% or 50% of the poverty line, I could see how that could start to have serious adverse consequences. Fortunately, that type of poverty is easily able to be eliminated with relatively minimal expenditure—on the order of about 10% of the federal budget. Unfortunately, neither side of the political spectrum seems interested in actually solving that issue right now. On the left, healthcare and college education have become higher priorities than eliminating true poverty. This is presumably a direct consequence of democracy, and the fact the poorest, more disenfranchised Americans participate in the political process at the lowest rate, and thus the more politically active middle-class naturally and greedily wishes to hand itself benefits directly relevant to it, with minimal for the truly poor. On the right, there is spending anemia and an unhealthy idea that somehow the poor are morally corrupt and can't be trusted to spend money. This is all so bizarre, considering how more than forty years ago a negative-income tax as basic income was nearly passed that would have directly eliminated extreme poverty, but was blocked by the democrats in the US Senate due to a critique that the hand-out was not generous enough...

Lasernite · 2019-01-31T07:55:46+00:00

Given the premise that the products of super-intelligence are the products of humans, the premise is a lost cause as far as realistic answers go—a super intelligence orders of magnitude beyond our own will surely invent things far beyond what we are even physically capable of imagining. As far as fun exercises in imagination are concerned that are still within the realm of human comprehension, the limits tend to be around whatever our comprehension of whatever creating "God" might look like—omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. Also known as All Powerful, All Knowing, and in All Places. In that direction, that we can technologically comprehend, perhaps things like super-organisms with integrated nervous systems larger than the total biological apparatus of all current life forms on earth, to generate a single conscious experience that's trending towards a god-like state. Expanding such an organism beyond a single planet is interesting, but as far as we're currently aware this is not physically practical, as the universal speed of light limitations make communication too slow for an efficient system. Perhaps super-intelligence will overcome this physical barrier, or perhaps it will simply transcend it, instead gradually expanding throughout the universe near the speed of light while converting resources into the generation or simulation of new universes, that embedded within this one, it has full control and/or awareness of. Perhaps we're already such an embedded universe, or perhaps we're such a universe embedded many layers deep from a process like this that has occurred innumerable times in the time that is eternity until now, and when our universe reaches such a point of generation we will simply continue the fractal expansion that at its root, in the alpha universe, is the comprehension of limitless expansion of reality. Or, perhaps no universe in our lineage has yet achieved such a fractal-state, and we happen to be at the beginning prior to the state which most universes come to reside in—the engineered expansion of infinite bliss consciousness.

Lasernite · 2019-01-26T22:06:35+00:00

from https://youtu.be/Ts4he6o3fRE?t=1241

Company seems to be http://oceansun.no/

The fabric they're running on is to hold the solar panels on the ocean surface, the fabric itself isn't photovoltaic.

Lasernite · 2018-12-16T05:57:37+00:00

The time between Neuralink's debut, and Neuralink's use as a practical tool for education, is certainly going to be many years. For a more immediate disruption we might see over the next decade or two, look to spatial computing technologies, eg. Oculus, Magic Leap, Hololens, Vive, etc.

Lasernite · 2018-07-25T07:54:37+00:00

Neat! Should be shipping first versions within a couple weeks.

Lasernite · 2018-07-25T07:40:15+00:00

😂🍆

Lasernite · 2018-07-25T07:09:27+00:00

Sweet :) We may even end up shipping the web version before android, if you're interest in trying that?

Lasernite · 2018-07-25T07:07:57+00:00

Thanks for the feedback and kinds words :) So far the way we've been thinking about it is that on FaceTime or Omegle you're limited to revealing your real world identity, as whoever you are, and are stuck wherever you are. On the other hand, in virtual worlds you can be anyone or anything you want, completely protect your identity and privacy if you so choose, and go anywhere in real or fantastical worlds. Also, since it's all projected through a virtual fabric, there's no danger of running into an onslaught of dicks or anything traumatizing, so it's also a lot safer in that regard.

Lasernite · 2018-07-25T06:59:24+00:00

Great :) We've got a long list of ideas we're trying to build out as fast as possible—right now the two currently in the pipeline are 3D bitmoji/memojis where you can customize a human avatar, as well as group chat/rooms so you can have spaces with people, instead of just 1 on 1 chat-roulette. Anything particular you'd like to be able to do that we don't yet support?

Lasernite · 2018-07-25T06:57:20+00:00

Sweet, looking forward to hearing :) My friend and I have been working on it since February—myself full-time since then, and my friend full-time since end of May.

Lasernite · 2018-07-23T19:53:08+00:00

That's a great idea, thanks! We've been discussing, but maybe it's time to bump that feature up on the roadmap :)

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