Comment by UncleMeat
3 hours ago
And people working on the metaverse endlessly referenced Ready Player One despite it being ludicrous fiction.
Yudkowsky is obviously read a lot by some people working in AI. That doesn't make his ideas prescient.
3 hours ago
And people working on the metaverse endlessly referenced Ready Player One despite it being ludicrous fiction.
Yudkowsky is obviously read a lot by some people working in AI. That doesn't make his ideas prescient.
Ready Player One was completely misread and misunderstood by people who thought they could make a lot of money with VR.
It wasn't a homage to 70s/80s/90s nerd culture and a hopeful glimpse of what VR tech could be.
It was a warning for people to get off their fucking phones and to work together at improving the real world, versus ignoring it and living out unrealistic fantasies inside a digital ecosystem that makes us all a bit less human.
The whole point of the book is that VR and addictive tech is a red herring. It was deliberately misunderstood by Zuck and his ilk.