I thought of a remark a day or two ago, but I have no idea, other than your remark, whether it applies at all:
"Does Zuck have Second Life second-system syndrome?"
Ofc.
Nobody thinks he's cool in this world, so he'll just spam "new worlds" until somebody thinks he's cool in one of them.
Can you imagine being Zuck? Super rich for basically creating the global gossip exchange and fraud factory, and he knows this, he knows Facebook is a clusterfuck of misinformation chaos. And he probably knows he is surrounded by yes people... I wonder if he knows he is in a nightmare.
I don't think it's a nightmare because he has choice and a fair amount of power. He could quietly retire comfortably if he wanted to, but instead he's making the play to reorient his company around a virtual-reality space. That sounds like a motivated person, versus someone trapped and going through the motions.
It's not always so obvious when you are trapped. How can we say he is acting truly freely, versus digging deeper?
Plot twist: Someone talked Zuck into VR as a step in playing some deep power-of-suggestion trick on him, as in the movie Inception.
Re:The metaverse is bullshit
by tialaramex on Saturday October 30, 2021 @04:47AM
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OT: The word you probably wanted was "seize" not "cease" although they do sound similar in many dialects of English.
Re:The metaverse is bullshit
by scoopertrooper on Saturday October 30, 2021 @08:02AM
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Thank you for pointing that out :)
Who wants to context switch from reality into a virtual world just so they can see what the new Ford pickup looks like? Nobody, thats who.
This whole concept reads to make like a Facebook exec went into a coma just as Second Life was taking off and woke up recently demanding that Facebook cease on what they believe will clearly be the future of online interaction.