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526: Douglas Rushkoff

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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How to Recreate the Dead in VR?

The concern for me is not how good those things will get, but how bad we might get at distinguishing between real people and what are essentially non-player characters. And I mean, Tibetan Buddhists bring children to deaths regularly as they're growing up. So they understand what death is and it becomes part of their experience. You know, now we're in a society that's figuring out not just how to hide death from young people, but how to simulate non-death for them. We were, we did not evolve with VR. So we don't know how to tag a memory that we've had in there that seemed real. It's really hard.

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