Liberty, about enjoying rewatching movies... your interpretation put all the weight of the experience on the movie, and nothing on you. At least for me, the answer has been the complete opposite... some movies (but mainly games) tend to transport me to a very specific kind of vibe (and each movie/game has its own vibe). I would define this vibe as two possibilities (perhaps a mix of them): either it's the way you remember the movie (which elements bring the most nostalgia) or it's the exact feeling you felt when you finished consuming that movie/game. I experienced something like this in the last few weeks, going back to playing Uncharted 4 after a few years. It was the first time I could play this game again, and it was a fantastic experience, I would dare say even better than the first. Something in the game's aura, in the character building and the kinds of attitudes they take resonated widely with a vibe I had been feeling for a few weeks, some that was difficult to put into words... but in short, the answer is probably more in you, than in the movie or game. Or, if I can put differently, there is a perfect moment in time that rewatching a movie or playing a game will be amazing, but you can't manufacture that moment, you can just take advantage of it, when it present itself.
Well, once again, you have hit all of the topics I have been pondering today.
1) AI progress - Tesla is doing what Apple has done successfully - Jobs created products that people didn't know they needed until they experienced them. They had to be top of the line, doing everything that was needed, not going half way, like Meta did trying to come out with a $400 mass-market VR that didn't tick all the boxes. The iPhone set the feature set standard, which was slavishly copied by every low cost competitor since. And despite Jobs' anger at being copied, in reality, Apple's success is built on the mountain of cheap imitations that created the demand for upgraded products. So it will be with robots. As I replied to Scoble, this is the Model A - proving that robots are real and anyone can have one. Still to come is the Model T, that can be hot rodded for fun and profit and aftermarket parts from Amazon. I predict that it will happen far faster and prices will come down more than people expect right now. (BTW, did you notice the voice on the conversational Optimus video that went around - Optimus never talked while Scoble was drinking water...)
On to the chopstick event - Wow indeed! Musk says that when he got interested in the space project he asked "Why is it so expensive and takes so long?" With that question, he has revolutionized a series of industires. HOW ABOUT NUCLEAR???
It's nice that Google is building a "cheap" modular reactor. It's been permitted. Why is it going to take TEN YEARS to build the first one? There is only one non-negociable requirement for human civilization - a constantly growing supply of energy. Life is the ultimate Ponzi scheme. We need tens of thousands of modular nukes every year just to keep ahead of what's coming with the pole shift that will peak around 2040. What we need is a Large Musk Model
Nuclear seems to be largely about regulatory reform + having a well-oil workforce. In places where they build a lot (ie. China), they can get plants done in 4-6 years at lower cost. But if you never build and then have to spin up a workforce for a one-off, then you have a bunch of mistakes, regulatory changes in the middle of construction, etc, then it takes forever and is very expensive.
But while nuclear has high upfront costs, the costs of electricity from it are pretty good, especially when you take into account all the characteristics (baseload, clean, not dependent on some foreign dictator, etc). Anyway..
Agreed on robots. We're still early, but it's cool to see the rapid progress.
Imagine how fired up you would be to give thanks after crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a vessel from the 1500s 🤯🤯
That’s a good way to look at it!
Liberty, about enjoying rewatching movies... your interpretation put all the weight of the experience on the movie, and nothing on you. At least for me, the answer has been the complete opposite... some movies (but mainly games) tend to transport me to a very specific kind of vibe (and each movie/game has its own vibe). I would define this vibe as two possibilities (perhaps a mix of them): either it's the way you remember the movie (which elements bring the most nostalgia) or it's the exact feeling you felt when you finished consuming that movie/game. I experienced something like this in the last few weeks, going back to playing Uncharted 4 after a few years. It was the first time I could play this game again, and it was a fantastic experience, I would dare say even better than the first. Something in the game's aura, in the character building and the kinds of attitudes they take resonated widely with a vibe I had been feeling for a few weeks, some that was difficult to put into words... but in short, the answer is probably more in you, than in the movie or game. Or, if I can put differently, there is a perfect moment in time that rewatching a movie or playing a game will be amazing, but you can't manufacture that moment, you can just take advantage of it, when it present itself.
Well said, that's an interesting angle into it. I need to think more about it 🤔
Well, once again, you have hit all of the topics I have been pondering today.
1) AI progress - Tesla is doing what Apple has done successfully - Jobs created products that people didn't know they needed until they experienced them. They had to be top of the line, doing everything that was needed, not going half way, like Meta did trying to come out with a $400 mass-market VR that didn't tick all the boxes. The iPhone set the feature set standard, which was slavishly copied by every low cost competitor since. And despite Jobs' anger at being copied, in reality, Apple's success is built on the mountain of cheap imitations that created the demand for upgraded products. So it will be with robots. As I replied to Scoble, this is the Model A - proving that robots are real and anyone can have one. Still to come is the Model T, that can be hot rodded for fun and profit and aftermarket parts from Amazon. I predict that it will happen far faster and prices will come down more than people expect right now. (BTW, did you notice the voice on the conversational Optimus video that went around - Optimus never talked while Scoble was drinking water...)
On to the chopstick event - Wow indeed! Musk says that when he got interested in the space project he asked "Why is it so expensive and takes so long?" With that question, he has revolutionized a series of industires. HOW ABOUT NUCLEAR???
It's nice that Google is building a "cheap" modular reactor. It's been permitted. Why is it going to take TEN YEARS to build the first one? There is only one non-negociable requirement for human civilization - a constantly growing supply of energy. Life is the ultimate Ponzi scheme. We need tens of thousands of modular nukes every year just to keep ahead of what's coming with the pole shift that will peak around 2040. What we need is a Large Musk Model
Nuclear seems to be largely about regulatory reform + having a well-oil workforce. In places where they build a lot (ie. China), they can get plants done in 4-6 years at lower cost. But if you never build and then have to spin up a workforce for a one-off, then you have a bunch of mistakes, regulatory changes in the middle of construction, etc, then it takes forever and is very expensive.
But while nuclear has high upfront costs, the costs of electricity from it are pretty good, especially when you take into account all the characteristics (baseload, clean, not dependent on some foreign dictator, etc). Anyway..
Agreed on robots. We're still early, but it's cool to see the rapid progress.
Cheers 💚 🥃