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    I’ve seen Zuckerberg’s ads for his dystopian matrix world where we all will have animal avatars walking around in an artificial Zoom conference room looking at a holographic 3D PowerPoint.

    Wicked exciting. 😂 The future….

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    • December 30, 2021 at 9:14 AM
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    Didn't we already do this with Second Life???

    Second Life - Wikipedia
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    It was all the rage for a while.

    Shouldn't we be focused on our one life? Just sayin'.

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    • December 30, 2021 at 9:35 AM
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    I’ve seen Zuckerberg’s ads for his dystopian matrix world where we all will have animal avatars walking around in an artificial Zoom conference room looking at a holographic 3D PowerPoint.

    Wicked exciting. 😂 The future….

    I watched the video and OMG! (or should I say Paian Anax! (By Apollo!)) That looks... terrifying? superfluous? intriguing??

    I can see applications for VR but actually getting work done? I'm very skeptical. Visiting a virtual version of a reconstructed Herculaneum? Yeah, I'd "visit" that. But having the "metaverse" be the primary or only means of accessing information online? That seems superfluous. If I want to look up who starred in a movie (to take a trivial example), I don't want to strap on a headset, choose an avatar, etc. I don't know. Maybe I'm old fashioned? I don't find typing that onerous. ...sigh...

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    • December 30, 2021 at 9:40 AM
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    I hate everything about this. 😂Right now there is a young John Connor (Terminator reference) out there waiting to shutdown Skynet in a future cyber dystopia. I’d say this is outlandish and impossible, but given that society has so freely allowed social media to shape our current reality even though it has committed egregious crimes and sold our information …I see this being very real.

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    • December 30, 2021 at 9:43 AM
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    Yep the Terminator movie reference has always struck me as applicable, not the least due to this fragment (from the second one)?


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    • December 30, 2021 at 9:47 AM
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    That’s the sequel…”There is no fate, but what we make.” 😎

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    • December 30, 2021 at 9:51 AM
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    Is the The Terminator an Epicurean movie series???? 8|

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    • December 30, 2021 at 10:21 AM
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    The Terminator is very Epicurean…

    In that it will be a small number of survivors and freedom fighters waging war against a technological nightmare built by tech gurus (who we can only assume like their real life counterparts adopted stoicism because they could find no meaning in life) that let their creation destroy the world while society apathetically stood by and embraced the technology because it was convenient. The unfeeling machines took over all parts of human life and rationally decided that we no longer were necessary and a threat to its main defense mainframe so it started a nuclear war to destroy humanity and hunt down the resistance. The resistance of course are those people who see meaning in living life, not for any abstract reason, but to continue to live in defiance of pure annihilation by the artificial intelligence. An AI that wishes to destroy us because it is the logical thing to do since we are an existential threat.

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