<div dir="ltr">There are extremely unpleasant people on the internet. The traditional response had been to block them once identified.<div><br></div><div>There is a significant population of people who would prefer the traditional response to be to render extremely unpleasant behavior literally impossible via some kind of technological solution (this problem is AGI-complete), and moreover, to permanently ruin the lives of these unpleasant people in the real world, once they are identified (this problem is coup-complete, and they're working on it). </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 8:10 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">She wasn't, some people just went up and were being trolls and doing humping grabbing stuff. It's uncouth but anyone who would think it's relevant enough to write a specific article about must not venture very far outside their own social media echo chambers. Gaming overall is full of rude people like this. This shit happens in kids games like Roblox for fuck's sake and that's a much worse issue imo. There are tons of people like this though on the internet (often from countries which are behind in women's rights). Any woman who has ever been on the internet can confirm this. Definitely not an issue with the metaverse in any way, more like "the internet is full of perverts and thus those perverts will be perverts on whatever platform they go on, and on a platform where they can act as bodies and approach other bodies, it is obvious that they will use those functions in perverted ways"<div><br></div><div>It's a very predictable result. Didn't really need an article </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 7:24 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I wonder why she was using a platform where avatars even had the parts to rape or be raped, if she was not there for sexual content.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:24 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A Researcher Says She Was Just Sexually Assaulted In The Metaverse<br>
Within an hour of putting on her Oculus headset, her avatar was raped<br>
while she was in the virtual realm.<br>
Published May 31, 2022 By Katie Hutton<br>
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“Metaverse: another cesspool of toxic content,” a new report published<br>
by the researcher Tuesday, details the researcher’s encounter in<br>
Meta’s Horizon World.<br>
Researchers working with SumOfUs said that they were exposed to<br>
homophobic and racist remarks while in Horizon World.<br>
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Looks like Lowest Common Denominator stuff at present.<br>
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