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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by bitwize »

wpietri wrote: post #522
polote wrote: post #378

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It makes me believe Zuckerberg is completely surrounded by yes-men I feel like the opposite. Zuck is the only one to believe in the metaverse and as a result people who worked on the communication did it badly without a lot of conviction. He is in a pretty comfortable position, one of the richest people on earth doing 20% of growth every year. And still he wants to make a big risky bet like this one. I'm not really…

What things would those be? As far as I know his successes are a) 1 idea he had as a 19-year-old plus b) some other things that he bought with the money from that.

Most of us would be glad to have one really big idea per lifetime. Zuck's was pretty shitty on all dimensions except moneymaking, but I'd probably still take it.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by chrisvalleybay »

You know what? This is lame. The whole presentation. The communication. The products. The way the story is being told by someone that's clearly way out of touch. For the first time it feels like they can be challenged. And not just Facebook; Apple as well. Google too. This is lame. Out of touch. Innovation might not be stagnating technically, but they sure are stagnating socially. It will be interesting to see what actually comes next. This certainly isn't it.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by rchaud »

nabla9 wrote: post #207
minimaxir wrote: post #2

The rebrand was introduced as a "One More Thing" during the event keynote. A 2007 "One More Thing" was the announcement of the iPhone and the future of mobile computing. Now a 2021 "One More Thing" is the announcement of a company rebrand to avoid government regulation.

I think you remember wrong. iPhone was not one more thing announcement. In 2007 One more thing was Safari for Windows. Here is list: https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/one-more-thing-3793072/

I thonk the iPhone announcement was at a one-off January event, different from their regular event int the fall.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by lovecg »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #658
lovecg wrote: post #367

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That makes way more sense too. Human brains are pretty complex devices, it’s easy to believe the machines didn’t figure out how to make something comparable and opted for human farming instead. On the other hand humans make very crappy batteries, how does that science even work.

MORPHEUS: For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living - NEO (politely) : Excuse me, please. MORPHEUS: Yes, Neo? NEO: I've kept quiet for as long as I could, but I feel a certain need to speak up at this point. The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. Th…

Beautiful.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by treelovinhippie »

danso wrote: post #139

I was curious what meta.com looked like before FB took control of the domain. Recent snapshots aren't loading for me, but post-2015 it looks like it was taken over by an AI company — the page titles include "Meta — Science Discovered" [0] and "Meta — AI for Science". Prior to that, since around 2012 it was an unused Wordpress site [1] that redirected to meta.compgu.com (which is now "tekman.cc", a consulting firm or…

Zuck's non-profit acquired the company back in 2017 and as of a few hours ago they conveniently killed it.

Imagine acquiring a company via your non-profit purely to grab the name and domain names for your for-profit.

Announcement: https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by [deleted] »

bitwize wrote: post #771
wpietri wrote: post #522

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What things would those be? As far as I know his successes are a) 1 idea he had as a 19-year-old plus b) some other things that he bought with the money from that.

Most of us would be glad to have one really big idea per lifetime. Zuck's was pretty shitty on all dimensions except moneymaking, but I'd probably still take it.

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Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

anonporridge wrote: post #589
uuddlrlr wrote: post #344

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>I don't think Facebook is constitutionally able to give up ad revenue gains This "fiduciary duty" meme really needs to die. Seriously the idea of fiduciary duty [to maximixe profit] is dystopian, corporations don't fuck us over because they have to they do it because they can. Edit: clarify

The problem is that the "maximize profit" meme is VERY fit in the evolutionary world of memes. Those organizations and people that adopt the meme become more powerful and choke out all those entities that don't. You can't just choose not to pursue profits at any cost if there are ANY competing entities out there that choose to do so.

I dont buy that. Lots of other factors beat out efficiency and execution. Sure, it’ll give you a statistically better shot at doing well, but you won’t die without it.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by tornato7 »

Growing up, the older generation just didn't "get" new technology, often embarrassing themselves by not knowing how to use a computer.

I always thought I would "get" technology. But with a lot of this new metaverse stuff, I truly don't "get it" while I think younger generations will. Some day maybe I'll make a fool of myself by not knowing how to call my son in VR using an NFT identity.

Re: Facebook Renames to Meta

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Post by rchaud »

AlexandrB wrote: post #129
nyt-maps wrote: post #19

My god, if you get it, you get it. They are going all in on metaverse / have decided that the future of oculus is the primary long term bet, not facebook itself. And they have the money to make it so. This is incredibly scary, and probably a good investment.

Honestly, I think this is less scary than having Facebook acting as a "public square". A meta-verse has a higher bar of entry than a website - including specialized hardware - and it's less likely that governments and businesses will distribute information exclusively in some meta-verse vs. it just being another channel for content distribution.

The cost of these devices will fall over time. About a billion people's first internet connected device was a $50 phone, not a $500 laptop.
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