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VRChat is less LARP-heavy than SL. VRChat is more proprietary than SL. VRChat is more custom than SL in some ways and less in others. The SL people tried to make a VRChat clone. Th…

That the EU's overreach has made a product worse for the majority of its users. As a technical user, it doesn't bother me. When I consider many of my friends, it does bother me—mos…

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From their perspective: Worker cost 50 money. How company get 50 money? Worker not work so much, maybe? How to quantify? What if spy? Company tell IT monkey to give developer monke…

Counterpoint: A paperclip maximizer is a good thing. Paperclips are very useful. In conjunction with most surfaces, they can be used as musical instruments, akin to drumsticks or f…

> But, Mr. Rector said, previous experiments in cash assistance, like a “negative income tax” program for the poor in the 1970s, showed ... negative impacts on marriage that lasted…

Can/has been done before. To make VRDs safe, they need to be dimmed with a filter, but it's achievable.

It already can be and has been done. Look at Mann's Thermocam EyeTap, or half of his other papers. He revisits mediating human vision with extrasensory overlays often.