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This initiative will fail like the Metaverse did.
People actually use AI. People do not use virtual reality headsets.
Which is meaningless for the purpose Meta is building it.
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What hurts is that these headsets in the right hands and backed by the right company could be so useful. But who in their right minds trusts the people in Meta?
It is frustrating, because I really enjoyed my Valve Index and want a replacement and Meta has some of the best VR tech in the world, but I've waited 6 years for Valve to release their new headset to buy a replacement, simply because Meta can't be trusted.
Well at least we know it’s coming.
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Meta's morality aside, it's so strange seeing bitterness about software salaries on HN - very crabs-in-a-pot. Especially considering that the vast, vast majority of software jobs don't enable a life of luxury due to differences in COL. Instead of insisting that more businesses should share enough profit to enable more people to live the Little American Dream (have a small home, small family, somewhere reasonably nice…
You’re making this about a lot more than my comment.
Yes, I'm commenting on a trend that I believed your comment was a part of based on your implications (implying something like "maybe you don't deserve what you've been getting"; and downplaying the impact of loss of income). Sorry if I'm wrong.
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You’re making this about a lot more than my comment.
Check your interlocutor's user name and it will make more sense.
I had picked that name just wanting a polite, harmless phrase - and then I realized it could have a negative connotation of being a know-it-all (I'm probably in the bottom 5% of "knowing things" among HN users), exacerbated by the rise of complaints about "mansplaining". Oh well.
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Same reason people work at any of these big companies, money and prestige. You can be a terrible engineer, but if you have a few years experience at Meta it's going to make people think you must be a great one.
Prestige for working at Meta? Certainly not! It's like you are saying you worked at Microsoft, Oracle, HP or Cisco. Who wants to hire such people?
Like it or not it's true. I only worked at meta for two years before getting laid off myself but it seems to have greatly helped getting interviews.
I am much happier not working there though, getting laid off was a relief. Things changed a lot after the first layoffs and when the stock was around $90!
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same reason people work at any of these big companies, money and prestige. You can be a terrible engineer, but if you have a few years experience at Meta it's going to make people think you must be a great one.
Prestige for working at Meta? Certainly not! It's like you are saying you worked at Microsoft, Oracle, HP or Cisco. Who wants to hire such people?
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#87Yet another "I arranged my entire life around the assumption I would have this same job and salary for literally ever and now I might not, oh no!" story. I don't get it. These people make a gorillion dollars. If they don't have multiple years of expenses saved up rather quickly, it's a skill issue.
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There’s been a substantial removal of political bias and community notes was released under his watch.
There's been a substantial increase in political bias. > Our new X users saw double the amount of right wing content than left wing content > And right-wing content was shown most prominently, regardless of users' political leaning. > Left-wing users saw almost the same amount of left-wing and right-wing content, even though they only followed left-wing accounts. But only 14% of the political content sent to our righ…
> Maybe the bias just aligns with your personal one now?
No. I’m an Obama era left leaning person, the same positions Obama had (illegal immigration is bad, if you don’t feel like a man don’t cut your penis off) are now considered right wing.
There are absolutely hard left positions on X - Israel should be destroyed, ICE must be dismantled, - but they’re not banned like right leaning content was in the Twitter era.
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Currently ad-free LLMs.
They show them now but yeah they're another ad driven service in waiting. That's ultimately the end for Meta. When ad dollars go from websites to LLMs.
That's why Zuck is desperately trying to build Meta AI. It's an ad company, they couldn't care less whether their vehicle is websites or LLMs. But they do need the LLMs if they want to continue to sell ads.
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#90> the framing that we are using this to train AI to do everyone’s job and the sort of unapologetic, ‘we’re training your replacement, and we’re not paying you more for it’ approach is just another signal of how little Meta cares about the humans that it employs Look, I want everyone to be happy, but if you’re working at the addiction factory, I mean, let’s not kid ourselves about how much Meta cares about people.
I didn't hear anyone complain when Meta was only ruining other people's lives. I can't feel any sympathy now.
Also, if you promise to put everyone out of a job with AI, it's only logical to start with your own employees. Give everyone a preview of what's coming for them if the promises hold.