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This reminds me of the scene in Ghost in the Shell when the man approaches the terminal and then each of his fingers subdivide into thin metal wires, flurrying across the terminal’s interface.

I wonder how research is going w.r.t. augmenting perceptual input bandwidth for humans. It seems like a strong limiting factor on the species.

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Fun fact: That scientist does that instead of simply using a neural interface like the Major and other cyborgs because he's an old-fashioned computer scientist and doesn't trust his brain to computers. Seeing as they live in a world where remote servers can fry your brain if you fail to hack into them, it doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

Source: the manga.

That is a very fun fact! I have yet to make the leap to manga, but learning this definitely encourages me to do so. I've been been thinking about taking the first leap with the Berserk Deluxe Edition, but have yet to take the leap.

Watching my 10 year old manipulate the mindcraft ui is mindblowing - she was anticipating the UI before it appeared. On the other hand, watching my officemate try to edit command lines by pressing left arrow 65 times fills me with rage. I think there's a lot of low hanging fruit where people aren't aware of the power of their tools.

I think the biggest overhead is language itself. Writing unambiguous language into text is a lot of work. If we could factor the work of disambiguation out somehow, we could apply that as a sort of UI/UX compression.

I'd put that way, way down the list behind a bunch of cognitive biases, inability to consider scale or plan for the long term, etc.

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