14th October 2023, 10:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 14th October 2023, 10:38 AM by Sacred Jellybean.)
I don't like to comment without finishing the whole video, but that's an hour forty-nine, and I feel like running my mouth now.
Spending time in VR is a pointless, ridiculous gimmick, and it's one of the few things I'm confident enough to say without my normal reservations of "stfu old man, you just don't get younger generations". There is absolutely no substitute whatsoever for being in physical surroundings. Imagine just the act of talking to another person: friend, lover, boss, whatever. Their presence has too great of an impact on your senses to just shunt aside. Hearing their voice, looking into their eyes... there's just something crucial there that's lost when it's a simulation. I feel a little frustrated that I can't describe it more precisely than something crystal-woo like "energy" or "vibes".
That's why younger generations are maladjusted from spending less time interacting in the real world, with friends, and more time having their attention robbed with electronics. (Okay, this one elicits a "maybe you're just too old to understand a changing world, fuck your cane bitch" voice somewhere upstairs).
If we were able to stuff people into the matrix and perfectly replicate all human senses to different experiences, it'd be interesting to have an application that simulates climbing a mountain, or going to any number of famous tourist traps. If we could make it completely indistinguishable from the real thing, more people would have access to those experiences.
Subsequently, it would no longer be impressive to tell people "I visited the great wall of china" or "I scuba-dived with some sharks", unless you can also say "but I like, actually did it, man!" That'd be like a status symbol, having the wealth and resources to do actually pull oneself outside of the capitalist meat-grinder and actually DO the shit. What's actually substantive about those experiences would be totally equivalent, and even if it feels superficial, there'd still be some meaning behind "but no dude I was actually there, a shark swam at my face and it wasn't programmed to not bite me, so that was a close shave".
Spending time in VR is a pointless, ridiculous gimmick, and it's one of the few things I'm confident enough to say without my normal reservations of "stfu old man, you just don't get younger generations". There is absolutely no substitute whatsoever for being in physical surroundings. Imagine just the act of talking to another person: friend, lover, boss, whatever. Their presence has too great of an impact on your senses to just shunt aside. Hearing their voice, looking into their eyes... there's just something crucial there that's lost when it's a simulation. I feel a little frustrated that I can't describe it more precisely than something crystal-woo like "energy" or "vibes".
That's why younger generations are maladjusted from spending less time interacting in the real world, with friends, and more time having their attention robbed with electronics. (Okay, this one elicits a "maybe you're just too old to understand a changing world, fuck your cane bitch" voice somewhere upstairs).
If we were able to stuff people into the matrix and perfectly replicate all human senses to different experiences, it'd be interesting to have an application that simulates climbing a mountain, or going to any number of famous tourist traps. If we could make it completely indistinguishable from the real thing, more people would have access to those experiences.
Subsequently, it would no longer be impressive to tell people "I visited the great wall of china" or "I scuba-dived with some sharks", unless you can also say "but I like, actually did it, man!" That'd be like a status symbol, having the wealth and resources to do actually pull oneself outside of the capitalist meat-grinder and actually DO the shit. What's actually substantive about those experiences would be totally equivalent, and even if it feels superficial, there'd still be some meaning behind "but no dude I was actually there, a shark swam at my face and it wasn't programmed to not bite me, so that was a close shave".