Nathan Lambert: belief

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…On the other hand, if you think of cars, cars are older than 100 years, right? And it’s still the same interface. We haven’t replaced cars with something else; we just made them better. But it’s still a steering wheel, it’s still wheels. I think we’ll still carry around a physical brick of compute— —because people want some ability to have a private interface. You might not engage with it as much as a phone, but having something where you could have private information that is yours as an interface between you and the rest of the internet is something I think will still exist. It might not look like an iPhone, and it might be used a lot less, but I still expect people to carry things around. Why do you think the smartphone is the embodiment of privacy? There’s a camera on it. There’s a-…

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