• even pretending like this wouldn’t be horrifically exploited to do unimaginable cruelty to people, the value proposition here is “what they experience as decades of punishment, in real life it’s just a few minutes, they can be right back to work.” fucking great.

    makes me think of that black mirror christmas episode part with jon hamm training the “egg” device and how they “break” the cloned consciousness of a virtual personal assistant by making it experience months of “infinite nothingness” in seconds to get it to cooperate with instructions.

    whoever dreamed up this b.s. should have a radio collar fitted to them and be monitored.