• audaxdreik@pawb.social
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    7 hours ago

    I absolutely agree with you but I think that take is a bit short-sighted and undercuts just how evil this stuff is.

    Tom Nicholas did a Youtube video on the metaverse a while back (oh my god it was 4 years ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM00M-dRMBk) and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. The pivot towards VR was an attempt to get even deeper ahold of our attention and what better way to do that than with goggles that are constantly in front of our eyes? The same with AI as it attempts to insert itself as a substrate layer of all technologies, and again with the smart glasses.

    It’s easy to dismiss these efforts as hilariously misguided but they’re not. They’re extremely calculated and he only needs it to pay off once to make everything worth it, and I think there are others that realize this as well. We just gotta keep praying that these efforts burn him out before they strike it big. I’m neither a praying nor gambling man, but praying is all we got right now to stand in his way and I wouldn’t put money on the certainty of Facebook’s failures …

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      6 hours ago

      It’s easy to dismiss these efforts as hilariously misguided but they’re not. They’re extremely calculated and he only needs it to pay off once to make everything worth it

      Fortunately there seems to be a limit as far as what people are willing to tolerate. While I agree these moves are extremely calculated, they’re being calculated by people who are almost completely disconnected from reality and whose egos cloud their judgment at every turn

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        4 hours ago

        Precisely. I make calculated decisions all the time. But I suck at math. Even “highly calculated” decisions can be very stupid. In fact, some levels of stupidity are only possible with some level of higher education.

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      4 hours ago

      The moves are very calculated. But boy, is suckerberg bad at math. This calculation lost them 80 billion.

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      5 hours ago

      They’re extremely calculated and he only needs it to pay off once to make everything worth it

      Yes, someone else who’s actually intelligent will do those things but zuckerberg himself is a talentless bastard who won’t be able to execute those ideas.

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      5 hours ago

      Praying , and encouraging more refugees into the fediverse and threadiverse!