[medlazik]

Humanity is doomed. Only some actual communist central planning could forbid this and the other thousands of "innovations" in order to drastically reduce resource consumption and maybe, just maybe make earth kinda livable in the next 50 years. Otherwise we're just doomed and if not us, the younger generation assuredly.

[graypegg]

Honestly want to understand your viewpoint here, is your corcern the resource consumption used in producing VR headsets, this NBA application, or something more general like all computing?

[medlazik]

Absolutely everything related to this article except the sport itself. All innovation from now on should go through a committee of scientists and randomly selected individuals to avoid such fucking stupid ""innovations"" to ever exist.

[gameman144]

This is super interesting to me -- I would expect that this world view would object to the comparatively extreme infrastructure and capital requirements of professional sports and other in-world consumption, vs. the relatively small outlays for digital consumption.

[graypegg]

I thought it seemed neat. If I was part of your randomly selected individuals, I would give it the green light.

I think the core element of human creativity might be lost in your imagined system of governance.

[medlazik]

"Earth is burning and 99% of humanity is suffering but at least for a century we were oh so creative" You in 2062, most probably

[graypegg]

Is it more to do with resources misallocated from something to prevent human suffering, to something comparably suffering-neutral? (a VR headset with an NBA app on it)

While I can empathize with that, I don't think those resources would be reused in solving world hunger, poverty, access to medicine, or something more directly related to alleviating suffering.

If there's a direct connection here that I'm missing (one of the engineers abandoned a medical degree to become a developer) I'm willing to at least understand that. But otherwise your idea still seems rather tenuous.

Oddly enough, you don't have an issue with the sport, which is also suffering-neutral, and actually represents a massive capital and labour waste by comparison. (Stadiums, redirected tax revenue, bloated salaries, ownership structures)