Yeah but we’re talking diminishing returns here. Doubling the resolution to 8k makes about as much sense as doubling refresh rates to 480hz. At that point it’s going to be mostly dependent on the individual, and likely heavily subject to the placebo effect.

By my math, a 55" 8k screen has pixels that are 0.056" (56 thou) wide.

At ten feet, that subtends an angle of 0.268 degrees or 1.6 arcminutes.

There’s obviously a lot of variation and it depends on exactly what you’re measuring, but normal human visual acuity struggles to distinguish details less than about 5 arcminutes, maybe 1-2 arcminutes depending on the test.

It’s because we’re at the limits of the human visual system. The difference in pixel pitch between 4k and 8k at the distances we watch TV is literally imperceptible.

It also doesn’t help that there’s not much content authored and distributed for higher resolutions. It’s exponentially more expensive to produce, store, and deliver.

Home Internet connections on average aren’t any better than they were ten years ago, either, at least not in the US. I doubt a lot of them can even support 8k streaming, let alone with anyone else using it at the same time.

It’s possible to design fluid couplings for torque. That’s what a torque converter in an automatic transmission does.

It’s not quite as elegant, of course, but still.

I fucking hate when people ask an LLM “what were you thinking” because the answer is meaningless, and it just showcases how little people understand of how they actually work.

Any activity inside the model that could be considered any remote approximation of “thought” is completely lost as soon as it outputs a token. The only memory it has is the context window, the past history of inputs and outputs.

All it’s going to do when you ask it that, is it’s looking over the past output and attempting to rationalize what it previously output.

And actually, even that is excessively anthropomorphizing the model. In reality, it’s just generating a plausible response to the question “what were you thinking”, given the history of the conversation.

I fucking hate this version of “AI”. I hate how it’s advertised. I hate the managers and executives drinking the Kool-Aid. I hate that so much of the economy is tied up in it. I hate that it has the energy demand and carbon footprint of a small nation-state. It’s absolute insanity.

As an American who hates AI, fucking send it, EU.