AI Expert Says Parents Will Choose ‘Digital Babies’ in the Metaverse Over Real Ones Within 50 Years

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

All this "metaverse" crap really depresses the crap out of me.

I guess that computers and electronics are so unfamiliar and superficially "magical" to some people that they ascribe more significance to this stuff than they should. To me, a "digital baby" is fundamentally the same as a doll. There are dolls that eat "food" pellets and turn them into virtual feces and urine, dolls that make baby noises, etc., but giving one of these a better processor doesn't make it any more than a toy.

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Today I saw a tamagochi for sale in a vintage store. As a child, a tamagochi was a virtual pet, but it was evidently just a toy. The current trend is the personification of the fictional, an emotional crutch for the lockdown junkie, an excuse for incels to avoid improving themselves to be more socially viable. They no longer see these things as a toy. We have a generation who have never known a world without smart phones and Facebook.

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It's really fucking scary. I've heard talk of people "uploading themselves" into a computer and dying as some sort of ecologically friendly decision, and that's just profoundly sad to me. Files on a computer don't experience emotions or create things and they never will. There is no HAL9000 or Commander Data.

[–]yelgy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

so now we're trusting the experts?

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They believe virtual babies will be popular in the future because they are fully aware that the covid 19 "vaccine" has sterilized over half of the world's population. Thus people will turn to the virtual babies out of despair.