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I a fan of virtual reality, just not in the hands of Corporations and the Chinese Communist Party, whose interests seemed very aligned in regards to controlling
by labrador 4y ago
I a fan of virtual reality, just not in the hands of Corporations and the Chinese Communist Party, whose interests seemed very aligned in regards to controlling and policing people. Both have thought police in HR departments and bureau of Party Functionaries.
Mark Zuckerberg has a $10 billion plan to make it impossible for remote workers to hide from their bosses [1]
China believes mass surveillance will help it engineer the perfect society [2]
There's no sex in the Metaverse champagne room
[1] https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/mark-zuckerberg-meta-avatars-video-chat-zoom-fatigue/ https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/mark-zuckerberg-meta-avatars-...
(https://archive.ph/i5yJO https://archive.ph/i5yJO)
[2] https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-surveillance-social-control/ https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-surveilla...
- intrasight 4y ago> There's no sex in the Metaverse champagne room LOL - love it ;) Sex sells but it doesn't pay the bills. i.e. you can't be coding Zuck's metaverse while having sex. I'm a fan of VR too. But the metaverse is either going to be the most amazing thing or the most dystopian thing that humankind has ever created.
- labrador 4y agoFacebook got caught doing A/B psychological manipulation and allowed Cambridge Analytical manipulate the 2016 election, so I'm leaning towards dystopian. Some other process will create the amazing virtual universe. I'm hoping for a grassroots open source virtual universe will arise in much the same process as the early internet.