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Most people mock the Metaverse, but at the end of the day, our entire humanity is prepared for the Metaverse. Everyone will spin their own universes in which th
by zooq_ai 3y ago
Most people mock the Metaverse, but at the end of the day, our entire humanity is prepared for the Metaverse. Everyone will spin their own universes in which they are the emperor and they will create stories in that Metaverse. You can visit someone's Metaverse if it's interesting or popular.
Your avatar is your personality, appearance. We are close to simulating all our experiences.
The only thing real will be a climate-controlled-with-plumbing 20 x 20 room and the food we eat. (We still haven't digitized taste, smell and some forms of touch).
Given this scenario, Reality is over-rated. Why do you need "truth" anyway?
Who cares if someone believes the earth is flat? or Trump is still the President or some esoteric grammar rules? As long as there is one another person (or even an AI assistant) who believes the story that's all that matters for our social well-being
- locallost 3y agoWell, a lot of progress we've made is based on science, which is based on rejecting the stories we tell ourselves. Our senses lie to us all the time in the real world too, so the stories you will tell yourself in the metaverse will be just stories. I think it matters, you can't build a rocket to outside the solar system if you think the Earth is flat. Will you be happy? Maybe, but the world we live in now has never been more connected yet people have never felt so disconnected. But like I originally said, the world you die in is always different. Maybe people get used to it and it's all they will know.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoPeople who believe earth is flat wouldn't have gone to build rockets even if they didn't believe so.
- hef19898 3y agoFlat Earthers absolutely do build rockets. And historically, everyone for whom the shape of the earth was of any importance, knew it was round. Everyone else didn't care either way.
- mewpmewp2 3y ago> Flat Earthers absolutely do build rockets I mean ones that would matter for the society.
- defrost 3y agoIn recent years it's probably more accurate to state that some people that crowd source funds for the rockets they enjoy building say that they are flat earthers. That says more about the marketing power of controversy than it does about actual core beliefs of backyard engineers.
- bmicraft 3y agoYou can't even build a working GNSS if you think the world is flat
- dave1010uk 3y agoKnowing there's people out there following incorrect grammar rules and not being able to correct them sounds like the opposite of societal well-being!
- sgu999 3y ago> our entire humanity is prepared for the Metaverse Come on. 2B people don't have access to basic hygiene, a third of the world population has food insecurity.
- wkipling 3y agoIsn't that a reality check.
- lljk_kennedy 3y agoWe are _in_ the Metaverse. Algorithms generate personalised recommendations - your own universe - that the person right next to you may never see. You can live a full life online in your curated simulation, experiencing a completely difference perspective on what's hot and what's not. You have no shared cultural bond - just flashes where your algorithmic content briefly overlaps with another, before the borders shift again.
- solumunus 3y ago> We are close to simulating all our experiences. I think you’re having a hysterical episode.