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I’d say more broadly it will be used for manipulative purposes. It’s a great tool for getting eager participants and then “gamifying” it to achieve some wanted
by mc32 5y ago
I’d say more broadly it will be used for manipulative purposes.
It’s a great tool for getting eager participants and then “gamifying” it to achieve some wanted behavior that extends to real life.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat is much darker, but also a distinct possibility.
- neuronic 5y agoA Pokemon GO - like game but developed by a subversive power to destabilize society further and further, inch by inch, slowly until the strength withers from within. Would be a decent Black Mirror episode.
- blowfish721 5y agoOr maybe a Southpark episode? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinpokomon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinpokomon
- mc32 5y agoYep but with real life implications such as social credits and in game credits to influence behavior. For example we have people who forgo actual social interaction and instead favor synthetic relationships and achievements. Potentially you could maid millions happy by giving them a synthetic world and IRL they live off some form of UBI but because the made up world is most of their existence they don’t mind nor care about their IRL standard of living going down, etc.
- jacquesm 5y agoCharles Stross has this, a game called 'Spooks' in one of his books.