Interesting Links for 28-10-2022

[andrewducker]

1. I have no idea how Meta spent this much money on VR nonsense

(tags:vr Facebook MarkZuckerberg wtf )

2. AI generated Warhammer figures of politicians is as glorious and horrifying as you'd hope!

(tags:viaMyBrotherMike Warhammer politics ai awesome )

3. What Do Blind People Dream About?

(tags:dreams blindness )

4. Coverage of the debate on the Scottish Gender Recognition Act (reforming how transgender people can get a gender recognition certificate)

(tags:Scotland transgender law politics )

5. You may have heard of Stanislav Petrov, but have you heard of the *other* Russian whose choices averted World War Three?

(tags:nuclearweapons history Russia USA epicwin viaPatrickHadfield )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I know where they got the money from - I just don't know what they spent it on!

[ninetydegrees]

Well I wonder if the amount mentioned is for AI, VR and augmented reality or strictly VR (and which aspect of it then? The assets and apps?). And whether this includes the amount spent on acquiring tech companies as well.

[fub]

It's surprisingly easy to build up very, very large departments to do Strategic Stuff. And then nobody really knows what to do because of a lack of vision and direction, and before you know it, you piss all that money away without having anything to show for it.

[armiphlage]

If the total average cost to hire a person (office space, salary, benefits, HR overhead) is $150,000, that means they have 100,000 people sitting around making no useful product. That's more people than 3M has!

[fub]

Good point -- it is a mindblowing amount of money. Though I can't say I'm opposed to Facebook eating itself in this way and then quietly imploding.