#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
Will People See Virtual Worlds Undistinguishable From Reality
There's a kind of an assertion sort of built into the way the questions usually ask that I think is false, which is a suggestion that people have a fixed level of ability to perceive reality in a given way. Actually, people are always learning, evolving, forming themselves. We're also programmable, self-programmable, changing, adapting. This gets back to what I was saying. Maybe the greatest gift of photography is that we can see the flaws in a photograph and appreciate reality more.
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