Turing Test

It is probably best that we can't have truly three-dimensional interfaces online, though the teledildonics industry is pushing us forward as only the sex trade can.

It is not important that the internet be connected to real life.

It is probably vital that some sense of separation between one's identity online and one's identity in real life be maintained.

Priorities online are subject to change based on priorities in "real life."

The internet is not "real life." There are not "real people" there. Only vague and deceptive constructed personalities like mine. I am not a part of your life. I am a screenname that sends out amusing or thought-provoking or annoying text. You respond with text and become nothing more to me than I am to you.

This is a simulation, an echo. It's Fable. It's The Sims. It's nothing.

You are not my friends.

You could disappear and unless we were collaborating on a project I wanted to finish, it is highly likely that I would not care. It's the internet. People disappear all the time.

You feel the same way about me. You don't have to say it; it's assumed, and always has been. Just don't ever forget, or you'll lose your perspective.

Have I lost my perspective? Perhaps. I have so many perspectives. It's hard to keep track of them all. Maybe I'll find it again when I need it.

I need to unplug.

Turing Test

It is probably best that we can't have truly three-dimensional interfaces online, though the teledildonics industry is pushing us forward as only the sex trade can.

It is not important that the internet be connected to real life.

It is probably vital that some sense of separation between one's identity online and one's identity in real life be maintained.

Priorities online are subject to change based on priorities in "real life."

The internet is not "real life." There are not "real people" there. Only vague and deceptive constructed personalities like mine. I am not a part of your life. I am a screenname that sends out amusing or thought-provoking or annoying text. You respond with text and become nothing more to me than I am to you.

This is a simulation, an echo. It's Fable. It's The Sims. It's nothing.

You are not my friends.

You could disappear and unless we were collaborating on a project I wanted to finish, it is highly likely that I would not care. It's the internet. People disappear all the time.

You feel the same way about me. You don't have to say it; it's assumed, and always has been. Just don't ever forget, or you'll lose your perspective.

Have I lost my perspective? Perhaps. I have so many perspectives. It's hard to keep track of them all. Maybe I'll find it again when I need it.

I need to unplug.

Turing Test

It is probably best that we can't have truly three-dimensional interfaces online, though the teledildonics industry is pushing us forward as only the sex trade can.

It is not important that the internet be connected to real life.

It is probably vital that some sense of separation between one's identity online and one's identity in real life be maintained.

Priorities online are subject to change based on priorities in "real life."

The internet is not "real life." There are not "real people" there. Only vague and deceptive constructed personalities like mine. I am not a part of your life. I am a screenname that sends out amusing or thought-provoking or annoying text. You respond with text and become nothing more to me than I am to you.

This is a simulation, an echo. It's Fable. It's The Sims. It's nothing.

You are not my friends.

You could disappear and unless we were collaborating on a project I wanted to finish, it is highly likely that I would not care. It's the internet. People disappear all the time.

You feel the same way about me. You don't have to say it; it's assumed, and always has been. Just don't ever forget, or you'll lose your perspective.

Have I lost my perspective? Perhaps. I have so many perspectives. It's hard to keep track of them all. Maybe I'll find it again when I need it.

I need to unplug.