Dematerialisation.

[dilbert1]

There’s nothing there? Probably an issue with the tech, he must be editing the post surely there’s something of note he’s to contribute once again today

 

[dilbert1]

Shall I order you both copies, sending them along with handmade cassettes of my essay readings

 

[dilbert1]

Finally, a brief coda recasts current debates about artificial intelligence by comparing them to these earlier crises of intelligence.

Even a bit @Clinamenic can sink his teeth into at the end

 

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[Benny Bunter]

i thinkn theres a robinsoe crusoe one. possible i made that up though. i read it when i was 19. i got the new directions paperback.= with the rubbish sketch of his face on the cover.

Theres a Robinson Crusoe thing in the first poems for the millennium anthology, from his notebooks, is that what you're thinking of? It's brilliant

 

[Benny Bunter]

Dunno if you'd call it an essay though, it's sort of a strange hybrid sort of thing.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Have you ever read any of his essays? I just nicked some interesting looking ones that were hard to find by screenshotting pages from a collection released in the 60s that’s expensive now and you can only borrow it for an hour on archive dot org. Considering transcribing the texts and posting the pdfs somewhere, or even recording the audio of myself reading them aloud and posting them to youtube (not on my main channel of course), just to up the accessibility

Can you share your screenshots on here? wouldn't mind reading them

 

[dilbert1]

Can you share your screenshots on here? wouldn't mind reading them

They’re quite ugly, but I can copy the text from my jpegs format them into PDFs then send them to you at some point

 

[thirdform]

@blissblogger should be eulogising about this.

from 2002 when he'd given up no less. peak dematerialisation anthem.

@dilbert1 isn't this anticipatory of the crude hegelian egirl phenomenon?

 

[dilbert1]

This would be perfect for a movie scene where some guy in South Asia is trying out VR porn in his room for the first time

 

[thirdform]

its pretty repellent isn't it? yet oddly compelling.

 

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Hyundai, a company that has been just as guilty in the past of spreading the touchscreen scourge in cars as any other, has been course-correcting lately, putting more buttons and knobs into its cars. The reason isn’t surprising: people hate touchscreens, at least for certain essential controls like HVAC systems, and they told Hyundai so.

“As we were adding integrated [infotainment] screens in our vehicles, we also tried putting touchscreen-based controls, and people didn’t prefer that,” Hyundai Design North America VP Ha Hak-soo told Korea JoongAng Daily in an interview that InsideEVs spotted. He said Hyundai, which was as infatuated with touchscreens as the rest of the industry at first, found that in focus group testing people got “stressed, annoyed and steamed when they want to control something in a pinch but are unable to do so.”

Hopefully things continue to move in this direction. I've never liked touchscreens and if we can't get rid of them completely then at least having some combination involving buttons is something of an improvement. I suppose this is just in cars though, I dunno whether "people hate touchscreens" in other contexts too.

 

[woops]

touch screens are seductive as concept but tortuous in reality. i think the problem is the size of human fingertips. it's almost as if the women don't fit the tools.

 

[mvuent]

someone needs start collecting this genre of image