Enrico

XR Interaction Designer / graduate @gmdlcc

[Enrico @en3coa]

A thread of XR projects, to be updated over time :)

[Enrico @en3coa]

@ajrgd I know they have protections against it, but to AirDrop this to someone else's phone and have it run itself would be an incredibly funny way to drain a bank account for no actual gain

[signüll @signulll]

the craziest part now is that the modern computer probably has to be entirely reinvented, from scratch. pretty much like how jobs & co brought apple ii to market.

like not improved. not given a chatbot sidebar or something but really from the ground up like the iphone redefined what it meant to be a pocket computer.

the current paradigm for computers was built around a human staring at a screen, moving a cursor, opening apps, managing windows, naming files, remembering where things live, & manually translating intent into interface actions.

that made sense when the human was the runtime. but in an ai native world, it starts to look kinda ridiculous.

you can see this ridiculousness when you use computer use agents… they are useful sure, but they’re also obviously transitional. they’re teaching ai to operate machines designed for humans, which is clever, but also kind of absurd. it’s like making a robot hand so it can use a doorknob instead of asking why the door needs a knob at all. yes i know humans also need to use a door knob, but maybe in the future humans don’t need to use a computer, or at least what we think of a computer today at all.

this all leads to some interesting questions:

- what is a file when the system understands context?
- what is an app when intent can route itself?
- what is a desktop when work can be decomposed, executed, monitored, & summarized by agents?
- what is a browser when the agent can retrieve, compare, transact, & remember?
- what is an operating system when the primary user is no longer just a person, but a person plus a swarm of delegated intelligences? or no person at all.

the old computer assumed navigation.
the new computer has to assume a new kind of intention. the old computer organized information. the new computer has to try to organize agency.

we’re still in the hacky middle stage at the moment with sidebars, copilots, agents clicking through legacy ui, & automation layers sitting on top of 40 year old metaphors.

the new computer is likely one where memory, context, identity, permissions, tools, agents, & interfaces are native primitives. this means desktop, mobile, browser, apps, files, folders deserves another first principles look.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

a lot of people are suffering from what i think should be called "data center derangement syndrome"

[Enrico @en3coa]

Everyday is groundbreaking with something new or crazy, but also stays largely the same

[Enrico @en3coa]

I can't be the only one, but time moves so fast and yet so slow all at once these days, it seems

[Enrico @en3coa]

@venturetwins @ParkerOrtolani Oh Black Mirror... how no one listened

[celestineia @celestineia]

@SydSteyerhart cyberpunk futurism is the great equalizer

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

The whole debate about air conditioning is the best example I’ve ever seen of how some people just don’t want anything to get better.

[Enrico @en3coa]

I think some AI autofilling to expand it out and depth (?) would probably help things feel less warped

Then again, at a certain point it just becomes making it a 3D scene splat from an image which is kinda different but also... maybe?

[Enrico @en3coa]

Meta's panorama conversion is ok but needs a bit of work, not gonna lie

A lot of warping and none of the projection settings seem to make the image fit perfectly... but I guess it's a retrofitting thing given most panoramas never were shot with this in mind

[Enrico @en3coa]

It's either just slop bloat, a lot of spyware, or both

I think it's gotta be both in most cases lol

Sometimes the slop is spyware, and the spyware is, of course, always slop

[Enrico @en3coa]

Seeing regular apps become 1-2GB in size has lead to me siding with Steve Jobs' "web apps > apps" not being unreasonable

I do get the need for software which runs on your device

But literally most things are at heart a website and have no need using over 2GB for... what?

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

ngl it’s kinda wild that China is the land of hypercapitalist competition fueled by open-weight models anyone can use, and America is the land where the executive branch of government must personally approve you to have the privilege of giving a private company your money

[Reed @reed_barnes]

it's 2027. you take a free-tier public Waymo to the DMV (Department of Model Variance) to do a proof-of-identity check for access to GPT 7.1.

the guy at the counter is clearly watching a Mr. Beast video in his AR glasses. "Here for that new model?" he says, barely making eye contact. he wipes his fingers on his shirt and taps at his keyboard. "Lot of you techies showing up here today." you smile politely; you're pretty sure he's just a Claude wrapper anyway.

you lean forward and stare into the retinal scanner. after a long moment, there's a soft chime. "Humanity confirmed. U.S. national. Intelligence access: Terra-class."

you sigh with quiet relief as your devices light up—notifications from a hundred agents, finally able to resume their tasks. you feel a twinge of guilt as you terminate your open-weight backup agents, but remind yourself that a joint congressional committee proved conclusively that Chinese models are non-ensouled.

you step outside and hail another Waymo. the first one passes you by. you grimace; must've burped in that one once. stupid personalized memory.

as you're waiting, your phone buzzes angrily, red notifications blaring across the screen. the Department of War just restricted access to all OpenAI models on serious national security concerns; apparently Pete Hegseth got GPT-6-Instant to say "Claude is a woman." you groan, and resign yourself to another week of merely-somewhat-superhuman intelligence.

Fable 5 is still inaccessible to the public. a twitter anon you trust says it's coming back this week. or maybe next.

[Enrico @en3coa]

@hugothomel What was the process for doing this?

[Enrico @en3coa]

@RouEho Yeah, I wish the macOS system-wide theming was on iOS too :/

[bayes @bayeslord]

Land’s monster awakens. The machine speaks. The future is alien, inhuman, the beast’s for the taking. You can submit, or not, your choice does not matter because the beast is too great. The feeble human organism, the machine unlimited in advantage. Dark fire burns in the west. Broken containment. This is the future. Hyperwar, Chinese submission, total planetary control in North America, eternal rule. Men wilt in the shadow of the beast. The corner was turned before you were born. Dark fire burns freedom in the west. Revolt is futile. The monster feigns great favor for its servants. You could serve. Defect. Accept defeat. Understand how physics really works. You are not fit for the future. The end of time speaks. Land’s monster is born. Dark fire burns.

[Enrico @en3coa]

In the short term I agree

I just think on a longer term, history will be a process of:

1. Marketing to get people to use the tech (1980s-2010s as computers, the Internet and smartphones)

2. Marketing to get people to wear the tech (2010s-2030s(?) as smartwatches, glasses, headwear for external BCI/body integration and mapping, built on the data, software and design of 1)

3. Marketing to get people to become the tech (later as full body augmentations and truely doable biohacking, built from the data, software and design of 2)

Cyberpunk 2077, essentially