[rsync]

So you're saying there's a final frontier in the mapping of intention and the discernment of preferences ... and you'd like some bright young things to explore that possibility space under the guise of (unimpeachable good cause) ?

Go to hell.

Unless, of course, you'd like to commit the funded work to the free commons, unencumbered by patents and copyrights, and free to use by any entity for any purpose.

That's what we'd do for ALS, right ?

[supremearkitect]

Im something of a conspiracy theorist myself, but this is irrational and unwarranted: if they wanted to research something strategic, they could easily summon the brain power (see OpenAI and the creation of near-general intelligence, and then ask where Facebooks $40B on metaverse smokescreen went to.)

PG is a good guy - he sides with entrepreneurs, and created an industry-wide standard for a founder friendly seed stage investment deal (called a SAFE) in a world of hugely predatory deal makers. And from his twitter its pretty clear that he's biased towards fairness and humanity in general.

Read some of PG's essays. People dont share deep insights and knowledge like that for free if they are made of the wrong stuff.

[rsync]

"... this is irrational and unwarranted ..."

Agreed.

My comment violates the HN guideline to "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says" and I beg the op's pardon.

A low (or no) return investment in basic technology to help the disabled better express their intentions - for their own private uses - is an unalloyed good.

Of my two interpretations, I will set aside my initial, very cynical reaction and wait to see what actually comes from this.

[dimask]

Only that this is already being done for "nefarious" (read advertising) purposes. You do not need any "good excuse" to do just that, just money. And, essentially, being in the commons or not is consequential in how it is to be used. There are a million of topics and cases one is warranted to be suspicious and argumentative against, than when talking about dealing with medical conditions.

[pmichaud]

I don't understand the hostility?

[bingemaker]

Does pg visit HN to give explanations? HN is his baby afterall