Read Mayfly by Peter Watts, one of my favorite hard sf short stories that deals with a child being raised in a computer, sorta.
Also, here’s the article in question in question. It’s written as a sort of joke about the supposedly serious article on the same topic in daily mail which I haven’t read yet.
nothing to do with the metaverse is a cool idea
also companion AI is just an intensely desolate and depressing field the more you know about which the sadder it is
nothing to do with the metaverse is a cool idea
Metaverse here is just a current buzzword for virtual reality and, I’m sorry, no amount of Zuckerberg shenanigans will convince me that the concept of virtual reality isn’t cool as shit.
companion AI is just an intensely desolate and depressing field
A couple of years ago I’ve read an article about lonely American seniors being kept company by virtual pets piloted by underpaid workers in Philippines and this was no joke the bleakest thing I’ve read in a decade.
A couple of years ago I’ve read an article about lonely American seniors being kept company by virtual pets piloted by underpaid workers in Philippines and this was no joke the bleakest thing I’ve read in a decade.
that’s less bleak than usual as there is at least a genuine person that they’re interacting with albeit in a perverse and bizarre manner
I honestly don’t how it usually is, but there is something incredibly fucked about a lonely old person desperate for even a tiny bit of affection, treating a foreign worker who’s too overworked and underpaid to not resent their job as their beloved virtual cat or whatever.
Oh god, virtual child abuse is going to be a fucking thing in my lifetime isn’t it?
Marriage is when two people join together to invent a guy and get mad at it.
there isn’t going to be a “metaverse” per se. the things that it’s presented as (some kind of “digital world” that replaces the real one) have existed in various forms since the 80s with little reason for a normal person to participate. if it’s anything, the metaverse is new branding on existing trends, specifically the further enclosure and marketization of anything public or free, pacification of the masses with increasingly lower quality entertainment and treats, and a politics totally subsumed by the spectacle. maybe some people will deal by playing ugly monkey second life, but i’m sure most will find other ways of staving off mental illness.
As I’ve pointed out elsewhere in this thread metaverse in this headline is just a hot new buzzword for virtual reality. But if you’re curious why facebook metaverse looks so bad, it’s because it’s designed to run on Facebook’s $250 Quest 2 headset which is powered by what is basically smartphone hardware.
