No one wants to watch the evening news or tampon commercials in 3D. For that matter, I wouldn’t want to watch Schindler’s List or My Dinner With Andre in 3D either.
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Oh, man, you haven’t experienced Wallace Shawn until you’ve seen him in 3D.
may 5, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
This is also what’s happening with the AI boom at the moment—it’s a “solution” in search of a problem. There’s SOME areas where it can be useful for specific tasks, but they’re hell bent on making it mandatory to be used for EVERYTHING whether it makes any sense or not.
may 5, 2025, 12:43 pm • 74 12 • view
The Metaverse comes immediately to mind.
may 5, 2025, 7:08 pm • 2 0 • view
From what I can tell, it’s just a glorified search function to replace the crappiness of existing searches.
may 5, 2025, 1:37 pm • 5 0 • view
This is a good description, but it’s often a bad search function. Fundamentally, LLMs are Markov Chains with delusions of grandeur, that search a fixed autocomplete space. Creating a new neural network is also computationally expensive.
may 5, 2025, 2:05 pm • 4 0 • view
When I say “glorified” I mean that in the same sense as religious relics, they enshrine a thing very old as somehow new and probably entirely fake.
may 5, 2025, 2:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Ah … gotcha Sorry, I’m used to people using “glorified” to mean “fancy, but basically” … you are very correct in your usage — lots of worship.
may 5, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Nothing on the internet should EVER be treated without due skepticism.
may 5, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I wouldn’t want to watch Jaws 3 in 3D and that was shot in 3D. (Once you’ve seen the exploding shark, you’ve pretty much seen the best the film is gonna offer you).
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