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Mark Zuckerberg is creating a future that looks worse than the world we have now

56 points by miles 5y ago

MauroIksem 5y ago
Fuck Mark. No one asked for this..i don't want to be part of this meta verse. I will lose my mind if I have to attend meetings wearing a fucking headset. This is where a draw the line. I'm done.
- elforce002 5y ago
  Preach! 4 years without FB. The only thing missing is to remove WS completely and I'm set.
  - 71a54xd 5y ago
    Yeah, if at any point I had to do any kind of remote meeting in the metaverse I'm totally okay just moving to a rural area and not doing tech things for the rest of my life.
Barrin92 5y ago
One of the most bizarre things to this day for me (that perfectly sums up the 'metaverse') is still the footage of the VR presentation in the ruins of Puerto Rico, which to me seemed like something that people would come up with who would want to make a low-budget dystopian sci-fi film. Yet FB put this out voluntarily https://youtu.be/N-MkduVh0wM https://youtu.be/N-MkduVh0wM
- pomian 5y ago
  What in the world was going on? First, there looked like there was an explosion around the tent scene, where one person blew up. Then the final cartoon strip on the closing section, was completely incomprehensible. I saw something. But definitely not what I want to see, or expected to see. Too crude to even describe. What, was the purpose of that clip? Who made it? Edited it? Approved it. Confusion reigns!
  - irthomasthomas 5y ago
    It is fake, the drone video was added in, I think. The original disaster zone VR tour was real though.
- skocznymroczny 5y ago
  I like the Starcraft Zerg music playing in the background.
- jhbadger 5y ago
  It's also a really weird definition of VR. I thought the idea was to make things look immersive -- as if you were really walking through an environment. This just looked like some video footage of Puerto Rico behind some cartoon characters (which it was, I assume).
akomtu 5y ago
As a relentless enemy of freedom, Zuck keeps inventing new ways to take whatever freedom is still left, even though his wealth allows him to not work for next thousand years. I dont know, maybe thinking about how some people still have some tiny bits of privacy left, inflicts physical pain on him - I cant explain his drive otherwise.
- throw3434053 5y ago
  You're a fool if you think this is his personal mission and not a trend favoured by those wealthiest.
- tcmart14 5y ago
  Infinite growth. Facebook is getting looked at for Ads and such, he needs a new way to keep the line moving up and to the right. Metaverse is the next play.
  - daniel-cussen 5y ago
    There's something to this. The real beautiful moments in a Tech company happen due to growth. Not being big, just getting bigger. Like if a natural disaster erased most of their market cap, like a fire in a redwood forest, they wouldn't praise the disaster of course but it would make their lives much better for a decade.
- nokya 5y ago
  Rich people hate when the poor gets to "keep" something for him/her. If there is "more", they'll do whatever they can to get it.
tluyben2 5y ago
But now web3, whatever it is, is fully entangled with metaverse? I have heard that before, but I did not know this was the common definition. If this is the case, it would mean that the metaverse world-database and all action on it would have to be decentralized right? Otherwise, if Zuck pulls the plug on a world (let's say some nazi playground or whatever), nothing works; aka all nfts etc from that part would be instantly gone. How does that work? As far as I know we cannot even run trivial things on the blockchain efficiently, so how is a complete 'gameworld' going to be implemented ? Maybe these are dumb questions and it is common knowledge, but I have seen web3, including in this article, seem mixed with vr when it comes to in game buys and ownership. That is pretty worthless to have decentralized if the game company can kill that game overnight because the servers were too expensive to keep going for only 100.000 players.
- TheRealNGenius 5y ago
  it isn't. there was a recent Wall Street journal video on YouTube that tries to make a case for it. But it's just cryptocurrency shills trying to associate with the metaverse to sell useless plots of "virtual land" in a game no one will play. Instead of development efforts going into fun gameplay, the value prop comes from Ponzi scheming.
TheRealNGenius 5y ago
Trash article
toppy 5y ago
As much as I agree with the title I cannot see a single word in this article which supports the thesis.
5350-uiop-1130 5y ago
Of course he is
anaganisk 5y ago
I feel like, Meta is just a project to gobble more money. I mean in the virtual world offer people a house for $50, cars for $10 and of-course put up billboards for Ads. I don’t know why people are getting so fussed about? Like we don’t have the Sims franchise already, Minecraft? We have adults actually spending money on games. Is this any different than a game? Just because its FB do people really think corporates would give up their influence in real world and move to meta and start buying BS there? What am I missing?

56 points by miles 5y ago

Fuck Mark. No one asked for this..i don't want to be part of this meta verse. I will lose my mind if I have to attend meetings wearing a fucking headset. This is where a draw the line. I'm done.

elforce002 5y ago
Preach! 4 years without FB. The only thing missing is to remove WS completely and I'm set.
- 71a54xd 5y ago
  Yeah, if at any point I had to do any kind of remote meeting in the metaverse I'm totally okay just moving to a rural area and not doing tech things for the rest of my life.

Barrin92 5y ago

One of the most bizarre things to this day for me (that perfectly sums up the 'metaverse') is still the footage of the VR presentation in the ruins of Puerto Rico, which to me seemed like something that people would come up with who would want to make a low-budget dystopian sci-fi film. Yet FB put this out voluntarily https://youtu.be/N-MkduVh0wM https://youtu.be/N-MkduVh0wM

pomian 5y ago
What in the world was going on? First, there looked like there was an explosion around the tent scene, where one person blew up. Then the final cartoon strip on the closing section, was completely incomprehensible. I saw something. But definitely not what I want to see, or expected to see. Too crude to even describe. What, was the purpose of that clip? Who made it? Edited it? Approved it. Confusion reigns!
- irthomasthomas 5y ago
  It is fake, the drone video was added in, I think. The original disaster zone VR tour was real though.
skocznymroczny 5y ago
I like the Starcraft Zerg music playing in the background.
jhbadger 5y ago
It's also a really weird definition of VR. I thought the idea was to make things look immersive -- as if you were really walking through an environment. This just looked like some video footage of Puerto Rico behind some cartoon characters (which it was, I assume).

akomtu 5y ago

As a relentless enemy of freedom, Zuck keeps inventing new ways to take whatever freedom is still left, even though his wealth allows him to not work for next thousand years. I dont know, maybe thinking about how some people still have some tiny bits of privacy left, inflicts physical pain on him - I cant explain his drive otherwise.

throw3434053 5y ago
You're a fool if you think this is his personal mission and not a trend favoured by those wealthiest.
tcmart14 5y ago
Infinite growth. Facebook is getting looked at for Ads and such, he needs a new way to keep the line moving up and to the right. Metaverse is the next play.
- daniel-cussen 5y ago
  There's something to this. The real beautiful moments in a Tech company happen due to growth. Not being big, just getting bigger. Like if a natural disaster erased most of their market cap, like a fire in a redwood forest, they wouldn't praise the disaster of course but it would make their lives much better for a decade.
nokya 5y ago
Rich people hate when the poor gets to "keep" something for him/her. If there is "more", they'll do whatever they can to get it.

tluyben2 5y ago

But now web3, whatever it is, is fully entangled with metaverse? I have heard that before, but I did not know this was the common definition. If this is the case, it would mean that the metaverse world-database and all action on it would have to be decentralized right? Otherwise, if Zuck pulls the plug on a world (let's say some nazi playground or whatever), nothing works; aka all nfts etc from that part would be instantly gone. How does that work? As far as I know we cannot even run trivial things on the blockchain efficiently, so how is a complete 'gameworld' going to be implemented ? Maybe these are dumb questions and it is common knowledge, but I have seen web3, including in this article, seem mixed with vr when it comes to in game buys and ownership. That is pretty worthless to have decentralized if the game company can kill that game overnight because the servers were too expensive to keep going for only 100.000 players.

TheRealNGenius 5y ago
it isn't. there was a recent Wall Street journal video on YouTube that tries to make a case for it. But it's just cryptocurrency shills trying to associate with the metaverse to sell useless plots of "virtual land" in a game no one will play. Instead of development efforts going into fun gameplay, the value prop comes from Ponzi scheming.

TheRealNGenius 5y ago

Trash article

toppy 5y ago

As much as I agree with the title I cannot see a single word in this article which supports the thesis.

5350-uiop-1130 5y ago

Of course he is

anaganisk 5y ago

I feel like, Meta is just a project to gobble more money. I mean in the virtual world offer people a house for $50, cars for $10 and of-course put up billboards for Ads. I don’t know why people are getting so fussed about? Like we don’t have the Sims franchise already, Minecraft? We have adults actually spending money on games. Is this any different than a game? Just because its FB do people really think corporates would give up their influence in real world and move to meta and start buying BS there? What am I missing?