Red meaning "I'm working on something important. Disturb only if emergency"

Green being, "I'm scattershot, come hang"

This is the perfect platform for stuff like this.

When the initial Muse launch happened, my first reaction was "wow this sounds familiar."

Now the HW side of things is announced.

To be fair, this is all obvious stuff that should be done. The key is who can pull it off. It has been pointed out many types that technically Muse is nothing new, some combination of Gemini products can already do it. The counterpoint being that packaging and branding make a product.

I am kind of sad that desktop computer use ended up being the way to go instead of hooking into mobile phones. Mobile phones allow for a lot more potential integrations with day to day life, plenty of services now days are (sadly) only available through a mobile app.

Now they're trying a new thing. I don't know if it's so much "being bold" as flailing around for some new thing. They really desperately want to own a "platform" like Microsoft, Apple, or Google.

Been thinking about this lately when I saw some mathematicians talking about more AI regulation after the millennial prize thing.

Move fast break things, fortune favors the bold, breaking rules doesn't matter if you win, etc silicon valley ideologies to me seem to be domination ideologies. Uber may toy with playing nice with taxi law until it's too annoying, then they shift to getting as many people as possible to have their commute, convenience, or livelihood to depend on it, then they can turn around to regulators with their finger on their chin and say "oopsies, I guess everyone needs us now, better consider that in your regulatory efforts!"

It's the brunch equivalent of changing the restaurant the night before to one you prefer by DMing everyone in the group chat with "we decided to change to antipodean because dave had a breakup with one of the waiters at french twist," and then when everyone arrives and Dave says "I've never dated a waiter in my life," you say "well we're all already here so..."

Anyway, it seems pointless to try to regulate this culture out of these kinds of companies or really this entire scene. Any law is now just an obstacle, and besides, various government actors seem to be angling for industry retirement positions, so passing useful regulation seems basically impossible.

Imo two can play at this game. When law fails to serve the interests of the people or is even weaponized by the interests of Capital against us, what's the point of it? I'm interested in things like LLM distillation and open weight models that take the winds of profit out of the sails of these "disruptors" to make their activities have no payoff. Wonder what other things we can do that would make someone ask "why would I send all my data to Facebook when I could instead just..." Pirating, free culture, leaks, hell outright theft, if we're going to disrupt things, why not DISRUPT things?

He wants to own the future for the sake of money, not because he wants to improve lives or entertain folks.

obviously zuck has his problems, and people are free to make their own choices. but at least let's acknowledge that if you use any LLM at this time, your grounds for objecting to Muse are anything but logical.

(I joke, but not really…)

It turns out the high value wasn’t in the camera - it was in distributing and consuming photos/videos with an advertising based revenue model. lol

This nuance is what many here struggle to understand. Building these products isn’t easy either - openAI already has an ever expanding graveyard.