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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by pilarphosol on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:53AM (#35055972)
I think it’s hilarious that they went and changed their name to their worst idea.

The term “metaverse” comes from Snow Crash, which is a dystopia. They would know this if they actually read.

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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by yamtaddle on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:09AM (#35056150)
I like it when companies just come out and wear "evil" on their sleeve. Like Palantir. Better than when they try to hide it, anyway.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by jayd16 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:22AM (#35056295)
Snow Crash is a a dystopia because of hyper capitalism not because of the metaverse. It's like worrying about space travel because 2001 had a runaway AI.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by yifanl on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @02:00PM (#35059581)
The metaverse did empower malicious advertisements to selectively target people (and put them in a coma) in Snow Crash iirc, so maybe it's really just a pivot deeper into that side of adtech.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by pilarphosol on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:41PM (#35084926)
True, but the reason there was so much demand to live in the metaverse is that the real world was so odious.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by r00fus on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:41PM (#35058406)
Mark loved Snow Crash. He does actually read. That's the really sad part.
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Re:Meta Is Said to Plan Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as Th... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:03PM (#35058713)
The physical world of snow crash was a dystopian hellhole. The metaverse of snow crash was still step up from that physical world, at least for the protagonist. They were a corporate pizza boy slave in the real world, but in the metaverse they were cool and had power and agency.
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