<div dir="ltr">This is also dangerous for people in countries like the US as it will irresistibly tempt their politicians to turn their country into a country like China.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 1:23 PM BillK 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">On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 at 18:22, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat<br>
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> There are extremely unpleasant people on the internet. The traditional response had been to block them once identified.<br>
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> 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).<br>
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In their Metaverse, Meta already has a Personal Boundary setting that<br>
defaults to a 24-inch bubble around every avatar. If every avatar uses<br>
this, then they are unable to approach closer than four feet apart.<br>
The woman described how the approaching males persuaded her to switch<br>
off this setting, as they had already done for their own avatar.<br>
I suspect she agreed because she wanted to see what would happen.<br>
So don't switch that setting off! And block nasty people!<br>
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The problem with punishing bad behaviour is the requirement to remove<br>
anonymity from internet users. The "powers-that-be" would love to have<br>
this option so that real people could be followed around and every<br>
action or word recorded on social credit databases. This is dangerous<br>
for people in countries like China where people can become non-persons<br>
because of a bad social credit score, or even jailed for protesting<br>
against the government.<br>
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BillK<br>
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