this should be flagged; this is ai slop.
Mother of All Demos (1968)
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Re: Mother of All Demos (1968)
#32People talk about Apple stealing from Xerox, but what you may not know is that Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI left shortly after this demo and took everything to Xerox without him. The man spent the rest of his career being swept into gutters, never got any recognition until the early 2000s at the very end of his life. It's a really tragic tale.
My understanding is that the GUI designers from Xerox also went to work for Apple specifically to bring their concepts to life because Xerox wasn't interested... if the original devs willfully jumped ship to Apple, and were the ones who actually did the work, then did Apple really steal it?
Re: Mother of All Demos (1968)
#33I wish that this wasn’t a LLM-generated summary of a YouTube video. I wish that this was a personal website and the content was handwritten. That the voice and insight was yours . Reading LLM-generated prose is like reading an obituary. The name appropriately describes the content. The font weight for the table of contents doesn’t appear to sufficiently increase to indicate the user’s place on the page.
Obituaries can be really nice bits of writing
Re: Mother of All Demos (1968)
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Re: Mother of All Demos (1968)
#35People talk about Apple stealing from Xerox, but what you may not know is that Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI left shortly after this demo and took everything to Xerox without him. The man spent the rest of his career being swept into gutters, never got any recognition until the early 2000s at the very end of his life. It's a really tragic tale.
My understanding is that the GUI designers from Xerox also went to work for Apple specifically to bring their concepts to life because Xerox wasn't interested... if the original devs willfully jumped ship to Apple, and were the ones who actually did the work, then did Apple really steal it?
Along the same lines...
Apple was founded because HP didn't want Woz's ideas for what became the Apple I.
Fortunately, Jobs thought he could sell it.
Re: Mother of All Demos (1968)
#36People talk about Apple stealing from Xerox, but what you may not know is that Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI left shortly after this demo and took everything to Xerox without him. The man spent the rest of his career being swept into gutters, never got any recognition until the early 2000s at the very end of his life. It's a really tragic tale.
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Re: Mother of All Demos (1968)
#37Doug Engelbart's work focused on collective intelligence. The technology demonstrated is in service of that goal. You can pick apart the finer points, but you're missing the forrest for the trees.
Re: Mother of All Demos (1968)
#38I wish that this wasn’t a LLM-generated summary of a YouTube video. I wish that this was a personal website and the content was handwritten. That the voice and insight was yours . Reading LLM-generated prose is like reading an obituary. The name appropriately describes the content. The font weight for the table of contents doesn’t appear to sufficiently increase to indicate the user’s place on the page.
Your choice is this, or nothing at all. If you prefer nothing at all, then just move on, close the tab, and pretend you never saw it.
No, it isn't. There are several good articles on TMoAD. Here's my favorite:
https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/
Why on Earth are you defending lazy AI slop? Although, I guess I shouldn't be surprised on a Y Combinator message board.
Re: Mother of All Demos (1968)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your choice is this, or nothing at all. If you prefer nothing at all, then just move on, close the tab, and pretend you never saw it.
No, it isn't. There are several good articles on TMoAD. Here's my favorite: https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/ Why on Earth are you defending lazy AI slop? Although, I guess I shouldn't be surprised on a Y Combinator message board.
I wasn't saying no other article existed on the subject. I was saying that the author is almost certainly not going to sit down and hand write the article since OP said that's what OP would prefer.