TLDR; Two wannabe tech bros drop out of college to make yet another pair of smart glasses that will fail because nobody wants it.
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Is dropping out of Harvard considered something to brag about now?
In the tech bro / VC world "Harvard Dropout" equates to an MD title in a hospital. It's instant credibility.
literally them: 🤓
Are they "drop outs" or were they 'asked' to leave the establishment?
Thiel/Yarvin/ acolytes probably. I didn't look up who owns the VC funds but I expect no one not sociopathic.
Does anyone not sociopathic own a VC fund?
"Vulture Capitalist" funds?
Did we not fucking learn anything from Black Mirror?
"The Entire History of You?"
Right wing people seem to have no media literacy.
I wish someome would ELI5 media literacy. So if I see an article, but I can read between the lines and know what it really means, or that it is sensationalized click bait, am I media literate? Or does it mean I am aware of trackers and surveillance on everything? Does it mean I know to check international news sources to be more well rounded?
Well, there's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy but that's not written for children
I don't think, of your examples, trackers and surveillance are a big part of it. Understanding subtext and credibility are more relevant. Like, recognizing when a newspaper always uses passive voice when cops do bad (eg: "man killed after violent police encounter" vs "police fatally shoot man waiting at bus stop"), but active voice for other people (eg: "Looters destroy small business shops" vs "Downtown shops damaged during anti-corruption protests")
Also in fiction, being able to take away more than just the plot. Like you can read Dracula as just a book about a guy that bites people, but there are way more ways to read it. When someone makes a movie out of the story, notice what parts they keep, emphasize, and drop.
Archive sites
Damn, how did you know that's why I couldn't read that?
Black mirror is no longer sci-fi. It is slowly becoming a documentary. - Louis Rossman
People missed those are warnings. They have no imagination so they took those as advices or even manuals. In a sense, they learnt.
Ew, spyware. This def violates GDPR
“Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,”
A bit too late guys, as glasses have always made anyone look super intelligent. If that wasn't the case, why would anyone want to wear them? Because that's the only reason I wear mine, and certainly not because I'm as blind as a bat when I don't.
More seriously, their plan is to kill IRL conversations by making it impossible to trust anyone we would directly talk to?
Impressive. Sad & frightening, but impressive.
Also, I wonder who they will blame the moment they realize the hell they will have made of everybody's interactions?
edit: typos
Sucks for glasses wearers who are about to be having a lot of blurry conversations when everyone starts to tell everyone to take off their glasses before they talk.
Yep, the first thing I imagined: how shitty would it be to not be able to see who I'm talking to... because I value my (and other's) privacy I would ask them to not wear their glasses and would not be wearing mine ;)
If their glasses make you "super intelligent" when you put them on, then maybe they should put on their own product and finish school? That was my line of thinking, until I got to this part of the article:
Ardayfio called the glasses “the first real step towards vibe thinking.”
...and then I realized I have no idea what the hell they're talking about and stopped reading.
What the Hell even is that?
You won't even have to think anymore, let AI think for you!, you'll be thoughtless and content
The sad thing is that people will buy this shit
i'm glad that my own vanity will prevent me from getting these. lol
Didn't Google try this and canned the project after nobody wanted to wear them or be recorded all the time?
Seems likely to run afoul of two-party consent laws.
“Move fast and break things” - arrogant fucks
LTT did a hands on with a similar product, the Frame by Brilliant Labs. It sucked.
I do not expect this to fare any better.
let me know when some dropout has an idea that's actually novel with sound engineering to back it up.
Are they trying to evoke the Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs vibe by saying Harvard dropouts? Do they not realize that those are HORRIBLE people no one should ever look up to?