The Polythróna with Hadrian Archo

Earlier Parts of this series  Part 1, Why Now?   https://hadrianarcho.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-metaverse-primer-by-jefferies-part.html Part 2, A Peculiar Economy   https://hadrianarcho.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-metaverse-primer-by-jefferies-part_15.html Introduction At the beginning of this discussion regarding the Metaverse, I had already begun to think about the effects that a fully developed metaverse would have on crime, punishment, and censorship. Because of my rather sluggish writing process, I was not able to complete this part of the discussion before a very important news article arrived onto the landscape this year. You may or may not have heard of this piece of news, but some time ago, a lady had reported that she has been “raped” in the metaverse [1] . In the story, a woman from the UK, Nina Jane Patel, claimed that within a minute of joining the metaverse platform, Horizon Venues, a group of 3-4 avatars had sexually assaulted her [1] [2] . In more ex...

 Introduction Continuing in our discussion over the fine piece of analysis that is the Metaverse Primer by Wall Street financial firm Jefferies, I wanted to take some time to highlight and discuss some of the more strange and peculiar aspects of what the metaverse economy will look like. In addition to our source material from last week’s Part 1 (link below), we’ll also add a video released by Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) about Mark Zuckerberg’s (The Zucc) vision of what the metaverse will look like to him, and likely a siginificant portion of the future metaverse for whatever that will look like. Beginning with the Jefferies article before we move on to the video from the Zucc, we’ll slide into the first peculiarity below. Link to original article:  https://assets.website-files.com/61152de79f1b0a81f1dcf4b7/615e101cf1cda13c40ee4d13_Metaverse%20Primer.pdf Peculiarity 1: Digital Consultants for Everything? One of the strange things that authors of the Metaverse mention on ...

  Introduction It was October 2021, and I was perusing my favorite investment-related website, Seeking Alpha. All the sudden, there was an interesting bit of news that appeared on the right-hand side of my screen. It said, “Facebook has a new corporate name: Meta” and I thought to myself that this seems reasonable given the high amount of negative publicity Facebook was getting at the time regarding issues with censorship, discrimination, data integrity, privacy, and anti-trust issues [1] [2] [3] . But around this time, the term Metaverse appeared everywhere in the financial news, and I found this to be odd, and almost astroturfed [4] [5] [6] . It seems my assumption at the time seems spot on judging by the Google Trends Analysis chart shown below. So, I’m not sure how every financial media outlet and some mainstream media outlets became so enamored with the term. Some part of me thinks that Facebook gave money to outlets to run a campaign to popularize the concept. Quick...