[crazy] [idea] vr can replace drugs?

Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many gmkarl at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 13:55:23 PDT 2023


https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/08/08/2153210/vr-is-as-good-as-psychedelics-at-helping-people-reach-transcendence

the article, which i have not fully read, focuses on an artistic vr
environment that produces responses indistinguishable from lsd and
psychedelics on some tests. it also raises the idea that vr could
produce other human changes, which is pleasant from a perspective of
unaddressed algorithmic psychological manipulation in the world.

i was thinking i needed an environment encouraging of rationality. i
thought maybe having the user plan how they would move, and then
follow through with their plan, as a first idea.

i’m not sure how i would make it pleasant — but that seems maybe the
study or art of human influence. maybe in the end a different thing
than simply what i wanted to do better, would be more humanly
influential.


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