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If it's a positive interaction, then what is your fear?

• TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
  That it's a negative interaction pretending to be a positive one.
  • detourdog 3y ago
    The "fear" is that people instinctively gravitate towards comfort and the easy accessibility of the comfort could be detrimental. Anyone that used the web pre and post ads can watch a useful tool degrade to the lowest common denominator. If people love their phones so much imagine if they rarely saw anything else. Maybe they constantly only see 80% of the world most of the time they are awake. I don't think it is society ending future. I would rather people perform virtual coups.
• halostatue 3y ago
  I suspect that the OP meant that it triggers a stimulus reaction which is mistaken for a positive interaction.
• pipo234 3y ago
  If @detourdog meant AR/VR in the snow crash / Metaverse sense, I guess the apprehension is similar to the discourse about "Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)" a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526645 People tend to turn to substances / AR/VR / texting / phone calls / read books / ... to take the edge of confronting the sometimes harsh reality. Of course, there is no way in which AR/VR is likely to intrinsically improve interaction, but is is so much worse that we need to worry?
  • detourdog 3y ago
    I worry about it more the AI. I also make no claim that it is worse or better. Maybe an easy example to examine the difference between A Rave alone in your cubicle with everybody in the world vs. A Rave with a 1,000 people in abandoned waterfront warehouse. That Rave can simultaneously experience the sunrise before making their way back to where they belong. They are very different and I'm sure with the right stimulants equally intense. Could be it's just nostalgia that makes me worry about it.