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Moral formation, as I will use that stuffy-sounding term here, comprises three things. First, helping people learn to restrain their selfishness. How do we keep our evolutionarily conferred egotism under control? Second, teaching basic social and ethical skills. How do you welcome a neighbor into your community? How do you disagree with someone constructively? And third, helping people find a purpose in life.
How America Got Mean
theatlantic.com
This is a “virtual AR” device, so it’s easy to be fooled into thinking that it’s “just” displaying the camera feed, as Quest does. But it also gathers mesh and lighting information about the room, and it uses that to *transform* the internal projection of the environment in certain cases.
• For instance, [the film player bounces](https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10072?time=1046) simulated emissive light from the “screen” onto the ceiling and floor, while “dimming” the rest of the room.
• Controls and interface elements [cast shadows](https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10072?time=879) onto the 3D environment.
Vision Pro
Andyʼs working notes
According to YourDictionary, "me, myself, and I" implies "Only me, me alone, me without companionship." Fair enough; that makes some sense.
Wiktionary agrees that "me, myself, and I" emphasizes the speaker's aloneness, i.e., only me; myself alone.
Me, myself, and I
Victor Mair
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