I'm pretty sure all roads lead to either playing the game or otherwise not doing anything of value to Nintendo whatsoever (ie who cares if you bury a box of roms in your yard)
Steve Jobs would have probably fired whoever suggested this ad, at best. He always saw the Mac as an enabler of and conduit for peoples' creativity, not a replacement for other forms of it.
Jobs' death is truly tragic in the context that Apple - and by extension, the rest of the tech world - could have gone in a very different direction if he were still around. He would probably be screaming his head off at the idea of generative AI.
Seriously and sincerely, I'd like to hear a dozen definitions of what
people think that "mission" is in 2024.
I think we long departed from "making the world a better place". And
yet the change simply cannot be explained by greed, money, or
obsession with growth.
Surely a lot of the venture capitalists that frequent this forum must
be as confused as the next person if they still hold on to the ideal
of "doing good with money".
What I see is the rise of a terrifying quasi-religious anti-humanist
cult with overtones of masochism and self-hatred (of human life).
I'm no big fan of Steve Jobs, but clearly he would be horrified by
many of the anti-human sentiments expressed daily in forums like this.
Is it too late to redefine digital technology as humane, and return to
the roots of SV [0] ?
Between e/acc+singularity, hyper-libertarianism and the actual locked-in, rent-seeking, culture-choking techno-feudalism we're getting, it's always been pretty obvious to me that the "mission" is to become the secular equivalent of a god, and then reign eternal, just like the world-building genre of games primes them for.
Too bad it's a big club and everybody here won't be in it, eh.
> Too bad it's a big club and everybody here won't be in it, eh.
There is some uncomfortable truth in this.
Those who identify with technology, and take for granted being its
masters, controllers and benefactors, end up the most disappointed.
The hoi polloi are happily indifferent to the cargo cult of shiny
stuff that comes and goes, which they buy because their friend got
one.
But those intelligent enough to know what we could have had, what's
possible and what's lost, will feel betrayed by larger forces that
nobody controls, whatever "big club" you imagine yourself in.
It's one thing for a man to lose to lose his faith. It's something
else when a priest does.
Well, most revolutions succeed when the overproduced elites join the masses to overthrow the rulers. So it's probably a good thing in this case if the priests lose their faith, as long as they do it quickly enough. Otherwise we'll all just be NPCs in Altman's and Zuckerberg's metaverses.
I don't disagree with you, but I'm unaware (naive?) of any other species farming/enslaving/capturing hordes of another species and effectively torturing them the way humans do
Being suddenly killed by a lion is a rather short torture/cruel experience compared to what humans do at larger and larger scales. I think animals even have a mechanism that I forget the name of that spares them a lot of the pain involved in such a situation (adrenaline, "going into shock", etc)
I really do wish I/we could do something to be less cruel but everything seems driven by profit margins and that makes it rather difficult/impossible. They're outlawing 'lab grown' meat! :|
(I eat meat, but I don't feel good about it when I think about it)
If that were the case why do they bother with an iPad, iPad Air, iPad Pro, iPhone SE, iPhone, iPhone Pro, iPhone Pro Max, ... each with their own number of colors and storage variations.
iPad Air was created to make a new price category.
The iPhone SE exists because there is a market for this form factor. If you look at the specs, you would notice it uses hardware previously used by more expensive models.
> iPhone, iPhone Pro, iPhone Pro Max
Again, different customers for different form-factors. These phones differ more than just SoC in them.
You understand that having N different colors of iPads is different from having N different SoCs for the same model of an iPad.
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