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May 10Liked by Stephen Moore

Rushing to add hardware to a trending software tech always leads to this. Before the iPhone there were tons of phones with internet that were absolutely useless. It’s just replicating.

Somehow integrating AI with Hardware is not working out, especially if rushed.

PS. I think Humane has hope; but they’ll need an enhanced V2 that’s quickly responding somehow and 500% better. But they’re well funded, so who knows.

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We’ll see. I’m not sure we’ll even see a version 2.

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May 8Liked by Stephen Moore

AI is the Tang of technology: something with the promise of fueling us towards the next frontier, but sadly, just a hip, but no less shitty, way to consume empty calories.

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Tang shots fired

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Nicely stated. I’m pretty much done with most of Silicon Valley. The smartphone has seriously undermined people’s sanity; connectivity has been replaced with narcissism and anxiety and monetization. Social media amplifies the stupid while the intelligent struggle to be found, let alone heard. And if I hear one more thing about self/driving cars I’m going to go buy a pair of wooden shoes. There’s been so much amazing work by real technologists in medical research, product safety, communications tech and more. But ever since the Valley has dominated the “web” and the “OS” we’ve squandered the promise of the internet year after year after year.

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I feel you. The current rhetoric of AI/self driving/ yadda yadda is so boring, so overhyped, and i think it speaks to the desperation of the few players who are pushing it. They need to capitalize on the hype cycle, or, it’ll go the way of NFTs and “put it on the blockchain.”

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I was a little bit excited when I saw the video where he showed off the thing. I'm so stoked living in the backwoods where these types of things only ship after a few years. Dodged a bullet.

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Saying what needed to be said. So many tech companies are grifters. Pimping the latest trend in the name of stock price. All you have to do is repeat the same recycled jargon over and over. You don’t necessarily need to DO anything with the tech. Haven’t we learned enough from the most prominent tech snake oil salespeople to not fall for this again?

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Nope. We haven’t learned, and unfortunately, it seems we will never learn.

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May 9Liked by Stephen Moore

This is a $200 toy, not a $700 toy with a subscription. Neither of them are the one true God. But I like the idea of the gadget and it can more easily be reused. Which is why I bought one. Same price as my most expensive IEM's Sure it's getting bad reviews, but so did some blockbuster games. Some become good, some don't.

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Oh for sure, it’s price it’s saving grace in some ways… if it had charged more, the backlash would have buried it. For now… it lives on. Just.

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