Mark Zuckerberg Introduces...The Matrix
Facebook is changing its name to Meta. As much as I want to mock this and make fun of Zuckerberg for being a robot person, it's significant. Don't be long on office real estate.
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Don't be long on anything tangible. Next thing you know, every human will be uploaded onto the cloud.
Zuck honestly looks like a fucking clown. That weird ass background makes it look like it's some Linkin Park song
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The notion seems silly and cringy now, but I am 100% convinced simulated reality is the future. Maybe not in the next decade or two, but certainly in our lifetime. It will take time to perfect. Once perfected, experiences in the real world will be nothing compared to what can be done in a computer system (vacations, movies, porn, etc.).
Unless of course...we are already in one...
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I love this movie so much.
You joke but that's the direction we are heading towards. I mean, meat-eater as an insult? Also the villain is as close to Klaus Schwab as he could be.
Is efficiency really that good? Think about what has been lost from increased efficiency such as WFH, dating apps, etc.
I'm not sure i follow. Where did i say "efficiency"?
I take it to mean "perfected experiences" are experiences that are efficient when considering maximum short-term pleasure derived compared to costs and constraints.
Sure I mean we can argue that the real thing is always better. But if the metaverse is perfected to be just 99.9% as good as the real thing, why wouldn't someone want to "log in" and go ski a few runs on the Matterhorn as their morning workout, or take a lunch break by the beach in Maui. People are going to use the platform.
I've played ping pong with the latest Oculus headset. The playing experience is probably 90-95% as good as real world ping pong, and the realism will improve. Plus there are all kinds of things you can do that you can't easily do in real life- like hit balls from a "pitching machine", never chase after balls that roll under a chair, play people anywhere in the world, etc. Not to mention that I don't even own a ping pong table in my house. So "it will never be as good as the real world" is definitely not a convincing argument in my opinion.
I agree, in many ways it will be even better. I was responding to someone who was saying "efficiencies" can be a bad thing.
I agree, but I also think that the "efficiency can be bad" argument is true at a deeper level.
One definition of the word "efficient" could be "capable of satisfying one's immediate goal without the help of another person". Flight reservation websites are more efficient than travel agents in that respect. Which means you no longer know a travel agent. If you talk to old people, you find that they have or at least used to have "a guy" for everything- travel, insurance, taxes, etc. Eliminate enough of those people and it gradually dawns on you that you just don't know as many people as your grandparents did. Their extended social networks were a lot stronger. And, in the end, that does more to create meaning in life than the ability to book a flight in your boxers at 11PM.
It definitely seems like some evidence that we live in a simulation. To be ultra conservative, imagine 1,000 more years of development. It will be basically perfectly simulated.
As it stands now, I hate it and this is ultra dystopian.
Damn, looks like Zucc is taking one out of Stringer Bell's playbook
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I'm highly skeptical of VR/AR. Don't really see how impactful they could be in day-to-day society.
Have you ever tried an Oculus VR headset? I could absolutely see upcoming versions of those replacing most business travel, and a lot of in-office work generally. It would be like Zoom on ultra steroids. If WFH is feasible now, it will be way more feasible soon.
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b/c this is a joke
people are going to actively pay for and pursue their own destruction
Big Brother's plan to watch your every move and thought.
There is literally 0 other reason considering we can do all of this in the regular universe.
If Facebook is going to be relevant in 50 years, this is how it will happen. It's a natural evolution of the social platform. There are a lot of other issues with the company, management, and being embroiled in politics, but strictly speaking about the technology, it's a good pivot.
All Facebook has to do to remain relevant is to buy up its competitors. It's not like the U.S. gov't ever enforces anti-trust laws anymore.
after covid, I've come to the realization that less tech-enabled interaction, not more, is what I crave
if that creates 2 worlds, I'm happy to live in the real universe rather than the metaverse
I can definitely see a dystopian future in which the 15% of the population that refuses the metaverse will be hunted by robots in an epic war.
Luckily liberal techies don't know enough about handling guns to actually program a combat robot.
fine by me, would rather die than live in that world
This is all fine and well until your employer forces you to work in some metaverse.
Maybe by then though, we may have shock muscle stimulators to keep our physical body fit while in the metaverse.
Also, there could be hybrid systems where you can walk on a treadmill or something and work in the metaverse.
I saw something Elon said recently and to paraphrase that ‘future educational systems should be in the form of video games’ to be engaging and to promote learning. He also said the grade system is useless and people should progress at their own pace.
So I think there is a lot to happen in the metaverse work world and education system in the next 50 years.
then I'll gladly quit my job
no amount of money is worth the inability to see people live
I'm with you on this and I think as more time goes on, the tangible/physical realm will increasingly become the realm of the wealthy whilst those of lower income will be further pushed into the digital world, especially as tech becomes more capable and deflationary.
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