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Re:Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain by weakfish on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:47PM (#39133186)
Metal Gear Solid 2, to be specific. A game shockingly ahead of it's time.
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Re:Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain by sdwr on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:25PM (#39133893)
Wow, that was written, what, 20 years ago? Sounds precisely about today
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Re:Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain by avgcorrection on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:51PM (#39135872)
It was more like about 10 years before that? The narrative was inspired by Jean Baudrillard. The guy who also inspired The Matrix.[1] 10 years before that game he was talking about the Hyper Reality of the Gulf War; that what “really” happened was dictated by CNN.[2]

But it’s not like those games give credit to all contributors equally.

[1] Or his ideas

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9WMftV40c

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Re:Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain by FreezerburnV on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:13PM (#39134567)
There was a really interesting panel I went to a few years ago talking about the idea of Kojima writing some shockingly ahead-of-their-time things: https://youtu.be/6kPOj0msHCE?si=CF1wlvE0N0ZL2Yzn
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Re:Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain by chaosharmonic on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:19PM (#39134657)
The wildest thing about Kojima devoting an whole game to the way mis- and disinformation spreads via meme is the part where it then happened to him personally after the Abe shooting [0]

[0] https://kotaku.com/shinzo-abe-assassin-killer-kojima-greek-n...

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