A world where you never know if you're talking to another human being unless you're right in front of them.

You wouldn't be able to trust that it's your own mother on the phone. Every thread and chat may just be you talking to yourself through a pile of code. And god knows who that code's talking to. Photo, video evidence in court? Can't prove it's not real, your honor.

An artificial world. Everyone sequestered away into their own bespoke realities, separated by unbreakable walls of uncertainty.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    To make you feel worse, if we're hearing about this technology now, it's probably a lot further along than what we are shown.

    If it makes you feel any better, all this technology takes a lot of resources, money, manpower, and technology to make and run. I'm pretty sure both AI and the Internet will no longer be available to most people in the somewhat near future. Climate wars, total economic collapse, communist uprisings, and so on are on the horizon.

    Anyway, if the worst comes to pass and like you say, the only way we could assume someone is real is off the internet, then that's simply a better incentive to log off and spend your life focusing on orgs and people.