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If you’re one of my ±20 regular readers since the dawn of this blog (over two decades ago!), you might remember the ancient debate, launched by Henrik Bennetsen, in his seminal article on Augmentation vs. Immersion (written back in December 7th 2006!), and which has caught my attention so strongly that […]
My thoughts and ideas on the ongoing ‘pause’ of Linden Lab’s AI ‘experiment’ with Convai and LLM-powered NPCs. Originally to be posted at the community forums, but it grew out of proportion, so it became its own post on my much-neglected blog instead.
Last night I went to a rockabilly party. Because I was in a hurry, I asked my Personal Stylist for guidance — that is, ChatGPT (who else?), the Rachel Zoe of digital fashion advice. And after some exchanges of tips and ideas, this is how it signed off: AHAHAHA of […]
Congratulations, Second Life®, for achieving two decades of continuous existence!
This is a simple experiment which I did while trying to learn how to programme in Google AppScript, which allows data from a Google Sheet to be imported from the ‘outside world’, placed & properly formatted in a spreadsheet, and lastly presented as a nice graph. Like everything that Google […]
Philip Rosedale is back at Linden Lab — but what exactly does that mean?
In these troubled days, when all Humankind meets a common enemy — one that is invisible but pernicious and potentially lethal— it’s nice to remember that we all can always connect together in a virtual world, and never be alone. Stay safe — indoors!
As I patiently sit at home while waiting for one of my servers to complete its tribulations (long story!), I was briefly scanning some of the ‘old’ places in the SLogosphere (do people still call it these days?) where I used to hang around for inspiration about what would be […]
Once in a while, I like to pop over to the Singularity freaks at Singularity HUB; they are the sort of crazy that I often enjoy — trying to figure out where we’re going, based on the trends of current technology advancement. They will get most things wrong, of course, but […]
So I’m slowly — very slowly! — trying to catch up with things. Bear with me for a while longer. I cannot promise to go back to the routine of ‘several blog posts per day’ (like I did in, uh, was it 2005?…) not even ‘once a week’. It takes time […]
Rumours of my permanent disappearance, as always, have been exaggerated 🙂
I’ve tried to write a comment on the latest article on High Fidelity posted on Technology Review. But I’m long-winded and their system didn’t accept my comment. So here it is: Rosedale’s latest attempt at designing a virtual world from scratch shows that he has learned a lot of lessons in […]