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I was once in a restaurant and behind me was a group of 20 something year old people. Overheard someone asking something like:"so what are y'alls thoughts about VR? (This was just before the whole AI boom.) And one guy said:"ith's kind of scary to think about." I was super confused at that point, and they talked about how they heard people disappear in the cyberspace and people not knowing what's real and what's just VR.
I don't think they were stupid, but they formed a very strong opinion about something they clearly didn't know anything about.
Without hearing the actual conversation, I feel like maybe he was just having trouble describing his thoughts about it. I take it as "disappearing into cyberspace" to mean someone becoming addicted to VR that they don't want to leave whatever virtual reality they're in. And possibly using it so much that the lines between reality and virtual reality become blurred. Or the guy really just thinks people get sucked into cyberspace, I really don't know with people anymore.
That's a subcategory of being stupid to be fair
I'd like to believe he heard a summary of sword art online's plot and thought it was real
Wait it's not? But matrix!