@JNavok @econosopher @ballmatthew We are going to wake up one day and realize we are just "in" the Metaverse.
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SteveA
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Trying to find the path. Passionate about helping Game Devs achieve their goals. he/him/oh you again
Bay Area, CA Katılım Şubat 2011
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Correct. Roblox is not the metaverse the same way that Facebook is not the internet. That said Roblox displays the opportunity of the metaverse as closely as possible. In the future as UEFN grows and other platforms that are massive 3D social spaces grow we will see, just like the internet, that the economy of such platforms grow. The shifting of economics and internet time spent by young people from text and social media toward Roblox is the thesis in a nutshell. This is what I have to believe that @TimSweeneyEpic @boztank and @MBromberg believe in which is why you see, for example, the announcement last year of Unity and UEFN.
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Doesn't matter how many times @ballmatthew said that the Metaverse is not VR, such as this 2021 quote, the journalists never listened.
Horizon Worlds is pivoting from VR into mobile. Good. It should.
Is VR the Metaverse? No. As a result is the Metaverse dead if Horizon VR is gone? No, that is like saying the internet is dead because Compuserve went offline.
I have long argued that Roblox is the best example of the Metaverse opportunity, and Roblox is a heavily mobile platform. But this doesn't let reporters sniff their own bullshit and declare it fragrant so they write the dumber headlines.
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@econosopher @JNavok @ballmatthew The OP said "closest to it" I think that's a pretty honest assessment of where Roblox is at, no?
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Roblox is also not what he defines as the metaverse. Emphasis mine: “The Metaverse is a massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds which can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users with an individual sense of presence, and with continuity of data, such as identity, history, entitlements, objects, communications, and payments.”
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An erudite, polished, and highly-educated German man arrived at a high-rise office building in downtown Los Angeles on Christmas Eve to attend what promised to be a festive, if conventional, corporate holiday party.
In less than an hour, his life and the lives of dozens of Nakatomi Corporation employees would be changed forever.
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I haven’t found a reliable source of what marginal token inference costs are _to Anthropic_, but way too many people say, “The tokens I use would have cost $5k but I only paid $200 for them so Anthropic is losing $4800.”
That’s not how accounting works.
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Yes, Claude Max plans are heavily discounted vs. usage via API, but it’s very different from Uber discounting rides.
Uber was a two-sided marketplace with massive marginal cost per ride.
Anthropic doesn’t pay API token costs and resell for Max token prices.
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@keshavchan leancept.com/articles/the-s….
Value accrues at the beginning and the end of a value chain.
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@keshavchan It's the smile curve. Typically this is the value chain for a product or service, but as friction across the entire economy is reduced, it makes sense that the smile curve converges to the entirety of the world, with atoms on one end and digital intelligence on the other.
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alpha lies in two places right now
a) conversing day in and day out with language models. getting as close as you can to their raw intellect.
b) playing with atoms, being as far as you can from ai. interfacing directly with tangible elements. energy, space, bio and the likes.
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Extremely exciting news! Congrats to all involved. It’s been an incredible experience to have been a small part of the journey. What an excellent outcome for all mobile developers and operators of alternative app stores now and in the future!
Tim Sweeney@TimSweeneyEpic
Google is opening up Android all the way with robust support for competing stores, competing payments, and a better deal for all developers. So, we've settled all of our disputes worldwide. THANKS GOOGLE!
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Punch will soon be smarter than all of us. In two or three years most knowledge work will be done by Punch
Knight World@KnightWorld
Little Punch is doing what most of his peers can’t — he runs on two legs for a long time.
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@TrungTPhan OMG, I'm Trung Phan famous!! My wife will be so proud once I explain to her what the hell that means.
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This looks super cool! I'm really interested in the broader applications of technology like this. The coolest tools almost always stardust toys.
Moonlake@moonlake
Introducing a world built by the Moonlake's world model. 🏙️ Most world models only allow for a limited action space. Moonlake maintains multimodal states across physics, appearance, geometry, and casual effects and predict how they evolve under different actions. 👇
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@TrungTPhan Dial up the slop, drop down the price, pick it up for pennies on the dollar -> The New frontier lab business model.
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Pinterest is getting overrun by AI slop. Think the platform particularly vulnerable. Expectation is for human-curated image grids. The AI filters aren’t good enough yet and flag a lot of false positives, pissing off many power users.
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Imagine smoking DMT out of a puma bone and strolling out of the cave and noticing that you were inside of a massive monkey that’s eating everything in his path.
Taylor Sterling@FatherMcKennaa
Someone smoked DMT out of a puma bone pipe in a cave at 12,600 feet in the Argentine Andes. In 2130 BC. That's the oldest confirmed evidence of psychedelic use on Earth — and the hardest thing I've ever typed.
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@firstadopter Is the issue the quality of the games they are putting out or an inability to maximize revenue from and around them?
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Took me 10 minutes to find a better candidate. Rod Fergusson should run Xbox.
tae kim@firstadopter
Xbox needs a leader in the mold of Vince Zampella (RIP). Someone who knows how to manage gaming studios and greenlight the right projects. Then getting hands-on with gameplay prototypes, micro-managing the "find the fun" development process. A serious gamer with real studio management ability and competence. Spencer was a gamer, but incompetent at managing game studios. None of the current Xbox leadership or the new CEO have that kind of background, skillset, or experience. It's like hiring an executive chef for a new restaurant who doesn't know anything about food or cooking. Or putting a CFO with no engineering experience or chip knowledge in charge of a major semiconductor company. This is another disaster waiting to happen.
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Anyone have some good expert commentary on the departure of Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond, with a new era starting for Asha Sharma and Matt Booty. What's it all mean? What were Phil and Sarah's accomplishments? What has the era been like and what is the one we're are heading into?
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@nicochristie Sweet!! I love seeing the good news pour in for you folks.
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Shortcut was just ranked the top Excel AI Agent by Wall Street Prep (over Claude, Copilot, etc.)
Not surprised ofc.
Shortcut was tested in direct comparison against top analysts, but Shortcut is really meant to be used as a tool.
That's where we really outshine others.
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