Jonathan Blow

Sorry, this was “smart people are too smart for”, but my stupid-ass phone keeps thinking it is smarter than me, and Twitter would rather add 200-acre Moments tabs than an edit button. Also the downfall of society.

FWIW, I turned off autocorrect on my phone 6-12 months ago with no regrets. I frequently look dumb because of my typos (see original tweet) but I figure "stupid" is preferable to "easily misread in a low attention span context" these days

I tried that and it also drove me crazy. What is so hard about, if it autocorrects a word, put it in a red bubble I can clearly see and tap on to revert the correction? But no, they are too pompous for that. It’s silly how bad these people actually are at design.

I think you should actually full-on rant on this one. Like, full-length, researched, akin to the talk you did on civ. We can GoFundMe a videographer crew. I'm ready to pull the trigger on this one

Like, part of me is "calm the fuck down," and part of me is still demanding a reason that the entire internet doesn't look like Stripe everything. They just clearly make the sensible decisions and this seems extremely difficult elsewhere

It is crazy how bad it is. (I have a backlog of talks to do though ... and that is not even my real job, sigh!!) It even extends to the physical world. The consensus praises good Apple design, but they designed phones so that they would slip out of your hand or any non-perfectly-

flat surface and then shatter on the ground. Which is why it was not a mistake that you would see shattered iPhone screens everywhere ... it is what they designed, and why everyone has to put a case covering up their beautiful slippery iPhone body.

Apparently they felt it was more important for it to feel like a precious gemstone than be a functional device, and judging by sales maybe they were right ... in a sense they design for the flaws in the human personality.

You can say “the scientists” but (a) That is rapidly being shown to be untrue, it’s just a small minority of scientists, (b) Larger society has decided that science happens Way Over There and isn’t something normal people need to be concerned with except when

they get to retweet something reinforcing their beliefs that claims to be based in science. (But if it doesn’t reinforce their beliefs then it’s pseudoscience or fake news)... so in the popular sphere we have demoted science to just rhetoric... kind of proving the postmodernists’

Considering who you are and what you've created, I know you must have some faith in technology as a vector for genuine meaning. Why do you see "tech addiction" as related to a loss of meaning?

Look at what people are actually doing with their time on these devices. Everyone has in their pocket computers more powerful than the biggest supercomputer in the world when I was in college (not *that* long ago)... are they using these devices to cure cancer?

“Is it as important as curing cancer?” seems like an abnormally high benchmark for judging the meaningfulness of an activity...

Dude... if this is going to be your mode of discussion, I can’t participate.