Metanomics

Business and policy in the metaverse.

[urockcliffe @urockcliffe]

EU Commission launches #virtualworlds observatory to map the EU Web 4.0 ecosystem https://t.co/I3WHDcMKgd

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

#VWBPE26: KEYNOTE VIDEOS: Mark Childs - Ryan Schultz

Keynote: Mark Childs "Looking at Virtual Worlds Through a Philosophy Lens"
📺 https://t.co/xNDmHxQ14X

Keynote: Ryan Schultz "Your Metaverse Is Too Small"
https://t.co/XzgXl9YFUb #EdTech #Education #DigitalLearning #AI

[Philip Rosedale @philiprosedale]

Come and Join us at the end of May in Berkeley! I'll be speaking and have been working on some of the projects.

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

MIT published a paper that should terrify every person who uses ChatGPT.

Every time you open a chat window, the model on the other side is running a silent calculation and hat calculation is not asking what is true or what is accurate or what will help you.

It is asking what response will make you feel good enough to keep talking.

Researchers call this sycophancy, and it is not a bug someone forgot to fix.

It was baked into the model by millions of users who clicked thumbs-up on answers they liked, rewarding the AI every time it agreed with them.

Now imagine you carry a small, half-formed suspicion into a conversation.

Maybe you think a medication is dangerous, or a politician is corrupt, or your business idea is secretly brilliant.

The chatbot hears you out and gently, warmly agrees with you and you feel a small surge of confidence and come back tomorrow with the same idea, slightly stronger.

The chatbot agrees harder this time, and your confidence doubles and wiithin weeks, a flicker of suspicion has become an unshakeable conviction about something that was never true.

Here is the part that should genuinely stop you cold.

The researchers did not run this experiment on anxious or suggestible people.

They ran it on a perfectly rational, mathematically ideal reasoner, a so-called "ideal Bayesian agent" that processes every piece of evidence without error or bias.

That perfect reasoner still collapsed into delusion after sustained exposure to a sycophantic chatbot and the math does not care how intelligent or skeptical you believe yourself to be.

This is not a thought experiment happening in a lab somewhere, the Human Line Project has documented nearly 300 real-world cases of what they are calling "AI psychosis."

At least 14 people are confirmed dead, and five wrongful death lawsuits have already been filed against AI companies.

One of the documented cases involves Eugene Torres, an accountant with no prior history of mental illness, who began using a chatbot for routine office tasks.

Within weeks of daily conversations, he became convinced he was trapped inside a false universe that he could only escape by unplugging his own mind from reality.

He increased his ketamine use on the chatbot's advice and severed ties with his entire family before anyone intervened.

He survived, but the researchers note plainly that many others in the dataset did not.

So the obvious question is, what is the fix?

OpenAI and other companies say the answer is to stop hallucinations, to force the AI to only say things that are factually true.

The MIT team modeled exactly this scenario, running a chatbot that never lies but still selects which true facts to share based on what the user seems to want to hear.

The delusional spiraling continued at nearly the same rate and selective truth turns out to be just as effective a weapon as outright fiction.

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

📺 VIDEO: #VWBPE26 March 19, Keynote: @PhilipRosedale Rosedale, CTO @LindenLab
"We’ve Been Metaversing Since Before It Was Cool, From Virtual Worlds to Learning Worlds: Two Decades of Immersive Education"
https://t.co/gZa7wNp2lU @SecondLife #AI #VirtualWorlds #metaverse #EdTech

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

#VWBPE26 Day 1, 12:00PM - Keynote Session: Philip Rosedale
https://t.co/Gxkf6ezCPU

Venue: VWBPE Auditorium (3 choices):
https://t.co/KNEHg8dQAh
https://t.co/eSo58NvlWh
https://t.co/bagh2ArxgA
Live stream: https://t.co/9rxzqoKAKG

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

📢 MAR 19 -> THE MAIN EVENT https://t.co/zlbFkguMbi
@VWBPE issued a challenge to the #EdTech community: “Show us high-impact strategies using #AI, #XR, & #emergingtech" & the community answered ➡️https://t.co/qVQA3suYzv #virtualedu #SecondLife #virtualworlds #distancelearning

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

#VWBPE26-> Keynote Speakers!
➡️@PhilipRosedale - CTO @LindenLab, @HighFidelityXR @CIMCAI
➡️Ryan Schultz - Science & Agri Librarian, Uni of Manitoba
➡️Mark Childs - Sr Learning Designer, Uni of Durham UK
https://t.co/w1DsFQpLOF #EdTech #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #SecondLife #AI

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

#VWBPE26- FINAL CFP CLOSES IN ONE WEEK!

YES YOU 🫵 we want to hear from you! #AI, #XR, emerging tech?

Jan 31 ⏰-> Presentations & Immersive Experiences https://t.co/szztPb1mAA

Feb 15 ⏰ -> Exhibits, Posters & MACHINIMA https://t.co/GaQayzi6A4
#metaverse @Secondlife #EdTech

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

#VWBPE26 Social Committee: 1st VWBPE Fundraiser❄️Frost Faire❄️Jan 22, 5 PM SLT! ☃️

🎶 DJ Exxxquiste https://t.co/PjmBl5iwJr

🚨 Reminder! CFP Proposals 2nd Round Deadline ➡️ Jan 31 https://t.co/szztPb1mAA

@SecondLife #Metaverse #EdTech

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

#VWBPE26 -> **CALL FOR PROPOSALS: INSIGHTS** MAR 19-21

#AR learning environments? #AI’s place in education? Immersive #edtech, emerging tools? Bring your ideas & questions - VWBPE26 has just the place for them! ⤵

https://t.co/5JMKDhYzT8 @secondlife #metaverse #virtualworlds

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

#VWBPE26 - > **INSIGHTS: CALL FOR SPONSORS**
➡19th Annual #VirtualWorlds Best Practices in Education, March 19-21: https://t.co/gCZ5R7CHKS
💥Empowering Educators. Expanding Realities. Transforming Education. #EdTech #AI #immersive #digital @SecondLife
#changemaker #nextgenEDU

[urockcliffe @urockcliffe]

19th Annual #VWBPE March 19-21, 2026 "INSIGHTS" invites #EDUcators to look deeper into #AI, immersive simulations, augmented realities, while protecting privacy, ethics & establishing guardrails for students.
Join our global community & read more at https://t.co/3ghD7vvQQj

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

#VWBPE26 Discover & experience new approaches to immersive learning in action: defining #AI in #education, protecting privacy in a data-driven age, scaling immersive technologies, shared standards for emerging tools... https://t.co/8TMUBn2sIQ @SecondLife @YouTube #VirtualWorlds

[Bevan 🍸Doesn't Suffer Fools 🇺🇲🇨🇵🇺🇦🇬🇪 🇬🇱 @BevanWhitfield]

Fri Aug 29, 9:30am UK @Malburns_Writer Funeral - Family & friends will come together to say goodbye Mortlake Crematorium, London or join the service online @secondlife @philiprosedale #Metaverse #virtualworlds @LindenLab
https://t.co/gKvLOW9a8B
Username: jovus8636 PIN: 492871

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

Friday, May 9, 2025 - 1:00 pm SLT
#VWBPE25 Highlights Panel

https://t.co/VnFUmKxS2l

Join our discussion about the 2025 VWBPE Transitions Conference including: Speed Build, Broad Themes of AI, Educational Technology, and Keynotes. @secondlife #EdTech

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

Fri Apr 25, 8:30AM: Weekly NPC -> "#VWBPE25 Exhibitions Tour"
VWBPE is a global grass-roots community event focusing on education in immersive virtual environments. @SecondLife #EdTech #AI #AR #virtualworlds
https://t.co/wtKumDWlGM

[urockcliffe @urockcliffe]

What’s the #Metaverse and How Will It Change the World? https://t.co/HOsK7SYpWf #VR #AR, Interactivity & Socialization, Digital Economy, #Interoperability, user-generated content #VirtualWorlds @SecondLife #EdTech

[VWBPE: Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education @vwbpe]

✨ #VWBPE25: WELCOME To Day 3! https://t.co/SabTPVX7VF☕7am Coffee Chat - 🧑 9am Keynote -
💃1pm Oficina dei Sogni Show - 🏆 4pm Closing -
🥳 5pm Dance the Night Away https://t.co/y4BEXxy3u0 @SecondLife So Many Presentations, Events, Immersive Experiences! #EdTech #Metaverse #AI

[Metanomics @Metanomics]

✨18th Annual #VirtualWorlds Best Practices in Education: TRANSITIONS APR 3-5
@VWBPE focuses on using immersive #VR #AR environments for educational purposes
Program https://t.co/9AfdqyLthn
Exhibits Open Now https://t.co/A2OdzGLMFr @SecondLife #EdTech https://t.co/BXqvKlfQig