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Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by Thorrez »

spicyramen wrote: post #123

I still don't understand how the one of the most intelligent minds in Silicon Valley work for Facebook to make sure people click ads. Can they work on real problems like the ones Bill Gates foundation is working on? No, non-profitable enough

Facebook makes money. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative spends money.

Microsoft makes money. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spends money.

It's a bit strange to compare Mark Zuckerberg's money making organization to Bill Gate's money spending organization.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by numbsafari »

> As long as our governments are seen as legitimate...

> Another perhaps better way ... is the new Oversight Board we are creating...

Zuck wants to use FB to continue to delegitimize democratic governments so he can replace them with FB itself.

Zuck is a fascist.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

root_axis wrote: post #128
mewpmewp2 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I am going to skip birthdays to prove a point? Or just lose knowledge about my local housing community and what is going on? See what I mean?

Yes. It is worth the sacrifice. Tell your friends to send you an SMS invite to birthdays.

Well the argument was whether one can do reasonably as well without Facebook. So the point is there are quite many inconveniences caused by that. This is why it would be preferable that Facebook was regulated properly.

It is not as simple as asking to send an SMS. I will be missing out on a lot of information, bonding opportunities, picture sharing and I will be that annoying dude making others jump through extra hoops as well.

I am personally not going to make that sacrifice.

I could also live in complete isolation in the woods and without friends. I just do not want to live like that being constantly paranoid.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by SlowRobotAhead »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #48
lokl wrote: post #31

I prefer this list of what's important: https://www.gatesfoundation.org . It has things like kids not dying from diarrhea.

You can have both. Kids aren't dying because someone is making websites instead of curing disease.

I believe that’s incorrect. The best people at FAANG aren’t working on next gen tech. They’re working on making fractional improvements to advertising, because the tiniest improvement there is a billion dollars.

SV is brain draining more fields than just computer sciences.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by dang »

numbsafari wrote: post #132

> As long as our governments are seen as legitimate... > Another perhaps better way ... is the new Oversight Board we are creating... Zuck wants to use FB to continue to delegitimize democratic governments so he can replace them with FB itself. Zuck is a fascist.

Maybe so, but olease don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by npo9 »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #117
gfodor wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any future avatar based communication system (VR/AR) needs to be open source and auditable if it’s going to mediate a large portion of human affairs and interaction. It also needs to be actually decentralized, the way the web and Internet are. We are working on it at Mozilla: hubs.mozilla.com More info here: https://github.com/mozilla/hubs-cloud/wiki/The-Web-Emergent-...

VR communication systems are a toy/gimmick like second life was. I have spent some time with VRchat and see no reason why it would end up becoming a primary method of communication over IM/social media. Its a good way to mess around and have some fun but its less convenient than existing methods.

That’s true today. Is it true 10 years from today?

If AR/VR becomes built into a form factor similar to reading glasses today I suspect we will see a lot more avatar based chatting.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by dang »

barry-cotter wrote: post #120
dang wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm always curious about claims that HN is degenerating. Where are those dissenting opinions of which you speak? I took a look, and didn't find any. I did see several early comments by your account, including its very first one, that were downvoted. Which comments were downvoted vs. not seemed consistent with what would get downvoted today, though today they'd probably get downvoted more—probably because there are ma…

> I'm always curious about claims that HN is degenerating. Where are those dissenting opinions of which you speak? You banned yummyfajitas, aka Chris Stucchio. That was where the elves left Middle Earth for me.

That's strange, because we did not ban him.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by jedberg »

root_axis wrote: post #128
mewpmewp2 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I am going to skip birthdays to prove a point? Or just lose knowledge about my local housing community and what is going on? See what I mean?

Yes. It is worth the sacrifice. Tell your friends to send you an SMS invite to birthdays.

Hah. Like that would ever happen.

I have a friend who refuses to use Facebook. About twice a year I remember to send her updates.

Then when I see her I have to go over all the updates everyone else already saw on Facebook. I literally pull out my phone and show her my feed.

It’s really frustrating and inefficient. I only do it because she’s a really good friend.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by gfodor »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #117
gfodor wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any future avatar based communication system (VR/AR) needs to be open source and auditable if it’s going to mediate a large portion of human affairs and interaction. It also needs to be actually decentralized, the way the web and Internet are. We are working on it at Mozilla: hubs.mozilla.com More info here: https://github.com/mozilla/hubs-cloud/wiki/The-Web-Emergent-...

VR communication systems are a toy/gimmick like second life was. I have spent some time with VRchat and see no reason why it would end up becoming a primary method of communication over IM/social media. Its a good way to mess around and have some fun but its less convenient than existing methods.

It seems highly likely 5-10 years from now you will be able to wear a device that is comfortable and unobtrusive that can deliver the presence of any other connected user to you instantly, including body language and full spatial awareness. In such a world where these devices exist, it would be pretty stunning to think people would not use them regularly for such purposes.
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