Comments on: Watch Out

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Wed, 21 May 2014 21:23:22 +0000

Women are baby making factories – they’re inherently valuable.

Women generally aren’t in need of protection from harm but from the threat of capture.

Gratitude shouldn’t really be expected.

By: E.Antony Gray (RiverC)

E.Antony Gray (RiverC) — Tue, 20 May 2014 05:00:44 +0000

If you didn’t sense the extreme sarcasm please get your irony detectors recalibrated

By: E. Antony Gray (@RiverC)

E. Antony Gray (@RiverC) — Mon, 19 May 2014 17:14:38 +0000

I will probably never have one of these things, though I think people who never got smartphones, if the watch is cheap enough, might get one. There are other problems: as jewelry, it has jewelry-related durability concerns. What is cool (the only thing that is genuinely cool) is the miniaturization involved. The rest is shuffling things to make them look like they’re moving.

By: j. ont.

j. ont. — Mon, 19 May 2014 16:43:31 +0000

Everyone has misunderstood this developing area in tech. They think that when Apple eventually wades in they’ll be competing with Motorola or something, but I expect Apple is way more interested in taking on Suunto (http://www.suunto.com/)—who, as you said, is used by athletes, soldiers, divers, etc.

I can’t say I’m super excited to see what happens. The utility of watch with a screen on it seem limited. Google Glass has more potential, Oculus Rift has more potential. Most people will end up just sort of staring at their watches rather than their phones.

By: Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther — Mon, 19 May 2014 15:54:36 +0000

“I’m looking forward to the future. Complete integration of self with the cloud. Instead of wasting valuable brainspace on a set of memories, remember a minimal set of formulas for remembering how to find the information you need.”

Exhibit no. 343 in why so-called neo-reaction is not in the least reactionary. The internet, social media, and the almighty cloud advance, rather than hinder, the meliorist cause. Faith in God? “Meh.” Faith in the higher liberalism? “Not this San Francisco Jacobite.” But faith in the gods of tech., whose companies would not exist without access to government-subsidized cheap credit? “The future, baby.”

It’s puerile, really.

By: E. Antony Gray (@RiverC)

E. Antony Gray (@RiverC) — Mon, 19 May 2014 15:10:29 +0000

(By the way, these things are awesome for people who do heavily physical activities: they’re already a smash for runners. I can only imagine they would be good for soldiers and anyone else who moves around a lot. I would wonder if they’ve figured out yet that they aren’t for everyone)

By: E. Antony Gray (@RiverC)

E. Antony Gray (@RiverC) — Mon, 19 May 2014 15:00:38 +0000

Awful.

I mean… Wow, just wow. The future. Dick Tracy, is that you?

Get me my microstylus. The one without blood on it.

By: JPOutlook

JPOutlook — Mon, 19 May 2014 12:06:03 +0000

L.O.L….

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By: Konkvistador

Konkvistador — Mon, 19 May 2014 08:58:50 +0000

This reminds me that I am dissapointed in rxn not taking Robin Hanson’s futurism? Minds moving to the cloud, eventually completely, has important and easy to derive consequences, that are easy to predict if one applies economics and some sociology, instead of pretending anything at all might happen, and the results fall out. This is precisely what he did.