well its obvious a rogue AI at Meta has gained awareness and just fired the first shot of the simulacrum wars by taking out Stephenson.
Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson
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#12This is not an anomaly, by the way. I've interviewed many multiple Meta staffers (including senior leaders), and can find little evidence that leadership actually read "Snow Crash" and/or even cared about virtual worlds. Even after spending tens of billions claiming they were building the Metaverse. Some background: https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/05/horizon-worlds-meta-horizo...
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#13And then went straight over to X, another social media silo, to post that his other social media account at the other silo was banned. What a world we live in.
X is pretty lenient with the banning though.
It seems like the best of the worst.
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#14Clearly the counter-AI that counteracts the ban happy AI isn’t in place yet
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#15"Today in 'you can’t make this stuff up,' Meta has suspended my Facebook account because they suspect me of impersonating someone noteworthy"
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There is a whole world out there, full of people who call Wi-Fi the internet. Nearly all of them do many things better than you, and most of them wouldn't treat you with contempt just because you find small talk difficult, can't swim or can't dress well on a tight budget.
Think about what kind of image your present to them and if it's really how you would like them to see you. Just honestly.
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#16On one level this is amusing. But what if both accounts are owned by the same person impersonating Neal Stephenson? My understanding was that he was not on any social media. Did that change at some point?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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There is a whole world out there, full of people who call Wi-Fi the internet. Nearly all of them do many things better than you, and most of them wouldn't treat you with contempt just because you find small talk difficult, can't swim or can't dress well on a tight budget. Think about what kind of image your present to them and if it's really how you would like them to see you. Just honestly.
It may not be how they want to present themselves, but it's clearly how they are.
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Reminds me Shadowrun.
I loved this game! I still have the original rulebook. That my AD&D 2nd ed. books, Star Frontiers and Gamma World boxed sets may be my most prized possessions.
I'm running a Cities Without Number campaign now, but I sure do steal a lot from Shadowrun.
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#20"Today in 'you can’t make this stuff up,' Meta has suspended my Facebook account because they suspect me of impersonating someone noteworthy"
As someone in the burbs + middle america, Facebook still has a frustrating grip on many of the community social communications which tend to take place in private Facebook groups (Girl Scouts, community HOA, etc.)