What is the metaverse... Will it catch on?

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Macroscien said..

FormulaNova said..

Carantoc said..

Macroscien said..
Now we could design our own SBverse experiment. .......Randomly draw sentences .....

That's what I thought you did already, Macro.

Although not sure you always capture the entire sentence, sometimes it seems more like a post of randomly collected letters and symbols....

and even then I'm not sure all of them are actual real letters..

How is that this does not draw you to top spot on the list of enemies? Is it too obtuse? Is it the GC thing again?

Then again 'Cran', maybe you are on the list and we just haven't received the latest updates?

I need to call for help !
I did ask my friends to treat you gently ,
but you know the drill .Some parts of internal investigations could be un - pleasant ( you actually may like it< who knows).


Who want first? FN or Cran?



Yep, you may be already abducted in the past,
and that may explain that everything, FN
you hate all Aliens since then.. Macro including

Funny you should mention the alien visits. I quite enjoy them but I think I read the fine-print properly unlike you. They asked me to pass along two messages to you:

1. Probing is not compulsory.

2. Stop trying to flag them down all the time, they already know where you live.

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Harrow said..

decrepit said..
Eppo, I think you're saying we evolved to self destruct, does seem that way?

That's an interesting point to consider. I guess that in the past, people who were curious and inventive and wanted 'stuff' enough to go about working out how to make and produce it survived, while that those that didn't have the propensity to produce and stockpile for lean times didn't. If it's that ingrained into us as a species, does that mean we're kind of screwed?

I don't think it does mean we are screwed, but it may take some work. While I agree that evolution has pushed for a more aggressive species, it doesn't need to be that way. I don't think it will change either as attracting a mate relies to a certain extent on these same behaviors. Similar to what you have said, the (excessively) meek may have died out due to lack of competitiveness.

I was pondering this the other day as sometimes my first response to some things is aggression. The Japanese seem to have this sorted, to an extent. Coach people into being overwhelming polite and courteous, even when it could be clear that you are right and the other person is wrong. It can go a long way to toning things down and making people get along much better in high density situations. Sure, people lose some freedoms, but they gain more tolerance and it seems to work.

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eppo said..
.....macro I would need a big dose of mushrooms to have any chance of following your trains of thought lol.

Nah mate. it doesn't work. I still can't keep up.

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snoidberg said..

Macroscien said..

eppo said..

macro I would need a big dose of mushrooms to have any chance of following your trains of thought lol.

What those magic mushrooms may cause in your opinion?
a) inflate imagination ?
b) degrade intellectual capacity?
c) bend and screw?

I am mushroom free, but interesting to learn from experts in the field.


edition.cnn.com/2014/09/17/health/magic-mushroom-chemical-depression/index.html

So according to your diagnosis I may present symptoms of " free mind"
and most of people here on SB don't have free mind
need to eat mushroom to get free


edition.cnn.com/2014/09/17/health/magic-mushroom-chemical-depression/index.html

There's a reason they are illegal,
They don't want you to be a free thinker, they want you to be imprisoned in the system.
Work, pay taxes, buy **** pay taxes, die, pay taxes.
gotta get me some shrooms, just gotta be careful you identify them correctly and dont take too much??
Micro dosing is great for your mental health and creative thinking.

Unfortunately side effects of poisoned mushrooms may effect your liver, damaging irreversibly, killing you, before your mind becomes completely free.

Well , one may say that dead is free, don't need to pay taxes or to do anything at all.

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snoidberg said..
Much more people die from prescription medication, i don't even take enough to get high or trip at all, i just micro dose to help my brain make new neuro connections and break away from the programming.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cicadas-fall-prey-drug-producing-fungus-makes-their-butts-fall-180977776/

A plot of virtual land on Axie Infinity sold for almost five times thar some weeks ago. I can't explain it, but someone paid it.

Crypto won't go to zero. Even Joshy knows that. Good on Libs for pushing for regs. They know it's the future. Crypto is pretty much mainstream now. Hahahaha ( as I laugh out loud all the way to the bank)

cryptopotato.com/axie-infinity-plot-of-land-sells-for-2-3-million-worth-of-eth/

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vodka said..

Harrow said..
You think Sydney real estate prices are crazy? Then how about this.... someone just spent $450,000 to buy a plot of land next to Snoop Dogg in a virtual world. It seems the growth of virtual real estate is set to eclipse

The internet has made me aware that all the money i make laying bricks and pouring mud is just nothing.... like im doing **** i hate.... for nothing.... my world was far better when i thought it was for lots of money and if i kept at it i could get somethint great...

Money has become nothing. Not a joke because jokes are funny and bring joy but just nothing at all.

You can do nothing and get money from government.
You can do nothing and get money from "investments ala gambling with shares"
And most the people with the most money really did very little physically to get it.


If i build a house only one person can live in it at one time so its not really worth as much as if i built a magical house that everyone could live in at one time....

We are ****ed

we are all ****ed

We should have never went digital. Someone activate the unabomber 2.0

Yup, like it or not.... different world different economy now. Seems making money is more based on moon cycles, microdosing on magic mushrooms and picking the next social media trend, rather than blood sweat and tears.

Not saying that this is a good thing, but it's the crazy reality. Blockchain/Bitcoin is going to change all our lives.

Lucky for some... not for others. We are in early days of this paradigm shift.

Get used to it.

Ps to add. this may all change if we eventually directly interface with AI using some sort of brain implant. Then private property ownership rights through enforceable government protected licenses will become part of the real "productive " economy..
then we will take this inherent madness to space and beyond if we keep existing.

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eppo said..
Ps to add. this may all change if we eventually directly interface with AI using some sort of brain implant. Then private property ownership rights through enforceable government protected licenses will become part of the real "productive " economy..
then we will take this inherent madness to space and beyond if we keep existing.

The problem I could see
is that now we extent Intellectual Property Rights
to common human knowledge database. Access to knowledge., education is already restricted by high college fees and restrictions.
Most of education even on highest level could be achieved completely for free , using internet and specifically designed programs and tests.
But governments will never allow, afraid of loosing control and source of income. Now something like common human knowledge is classified as Intellectual Property ownership and licenses granted. But for a thousand of years those knowledge is passed from generation to generation to build our human civilization as we know it. Metaverse could change the education system - if properly designed courses could provide complete education for masses.to illustrate:
things like swiping your finger on the phone screen is now patented and licensed. Any progress that humanity do right now, instead of become instantly imprinted into Wikipedia ,
for everybody available for free,
is now split into thousand of patents.
Legal fee, registration fees , licenses drawn on every small item, that naturally is developed in human evolution.Now the latest trademarking of almost every object and selling is the greatest violation of freedom to know, freedom to learn

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myscreenname said..
I didn't realise you could get gang banged in the metaverse

www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/meta-beta-tester-says-she-was-gang-raped-in-virtual-reality/news-story/0ba613b45d262c05ae9bd2d5c60f119b

Why is this even news? This has been going on for more than a decade and there are more virtual worlds than you can poke a stick at.

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snoidberg said..
Much more people die from prescription medication, i don't even take enough to get high or trip at all, i just micro dose to help my brain make new neuro connections and break away from the programming.

This is still The Metaverse thread, right?

As much as I don't understand the value of digital assets I do like the direction it's taking.

decrypt.co/92332/assange-dao-raised-more-ethereum-constitutiondao

I'm not sure what Julian Assange did was right or wrong, but I do think he has paid an extraordinary high price for the crime he's accused of. Whatever that is.

Good article here on crypto currencies. Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme:
jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-bitcoin-economy-decentralization