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Re: We need technology that is less immersive, not more

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You do know you can do what you like outside of work, right? You have a hyper-idealized version of what is and is not art. And execution definitely forms part of the talent. We should know that just as well. We all know "the idea guy", the guy who has all the "right" ideas, but just can't seem to actually do the thing required to bring the idea to life. And that's because most ideas are just half-formed thoughts. I'm…

> You have a hyper-idealized version of what is and is not art. No, I made an assertion that the most talented artists make art. > And execution definitely forms part of the talent. Seeing that many, many top, full time, talented artists have technicians that execute, I don't think it's the defining quality of a top artist. Execution can be offloaded, ideas cannot. > And that's because most ideas are just half-formed…

This is such pretentious bullshit.

The ability to realize an idea is way more important than "having ideas".

And I say that "most ideas are just half-formed thoughts" because they are. Most people think an idea like "the Uber of X" is worthwhile. It's not. It's hardly a thought, much less an actual idea.

Everything else you said was basically "nuh-uh, I feel differently and assert that my opinionated feelings are facts". And examples won't matter to you because you'll "no true Scotsman" your way through that saying they are "real" artists or "top talented" artists. As if your opinion on these matters were a subjective criteria.

Re: We need technology that is less immersive, not more

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i don't want to look at virtual worlds while this one keeps getting uglier, louder, and stupider. i don't care about computers anymore. i hate them and wish they never existed. unless they are all destroyed i will never have a moment of aloneness or privacy again. i resent every moment i ever spent playing a computer game. i hate these images of fake worlds meant to make us ignore the death of the world around us. we are going to reduce the earth to a single shining black rock running bitcoin and second life. whatever promise i perceived in technology has either been betrayed or never existed. the scale of the betrayal, the constant surveillance, the hateful and invasive advertising, just the pure spite, greed, and malice present in every aspect of every aspect of the logistical chain...

i want it all gone, or else i want us to use it to destroy absolutely everything. because what we have created is so hideous that only the capacity to destroy itself can justify its existence.

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