Comment by beering
6 days ago
It’s exciting because nearly all humans have 0% chance of throwing the rock into the bucket, and most people believed a rock-into-bucket-thrower machine is impossible. So even an inefficient rock-into-bucket-thrower is impressive.
But the bar has been getting raised very rapidly. What was impressive six months ago is awful and unexciting today.
You're putting words in my mouth. It's not "awful and unexciting", it is certainly an important step, but the hype being invited with the headline is the immensely greater one of an accurate rock-thrower. And if they have the inefficient one and trying to pretend to have the real deal, that's flim-flam-man levels of overstatement.