Philosophy in the New Metaverse ~ Where do you stand?

Quite agreed. In my case, I only mentioned Prok tongue-in-cheek, because of my historical ties to the Soviet Union--according to that blog.
Left/right doesn't bother me, and to be honest, I'd want empirical data before concluding that two or more dimensions would account for a significantly larger share of the variance than does one.

I suppose the scientific approach is to ask a gazillion possibly relevant questions to a gazillion residents and see what if anything emerges from a factor analysis. (Alternatively, one might use more powerful statistics to predict something specific, as opposed to measuring which measures predict each other.)

Presumably those "possibly relevant questions" would be various formulations of those already posed in this thread, which are pretty related to the perennial favorite topics in this forum: Landowner rights vs the tragedy of the commons; Content creator profits vs customer utility; Immersion vs Augmentation; LL rules vs avatar rights; contributor vs corporate; PG vs Adult; etc.

Voice/Text
Banners/Explorers
Just-a-game/Its-a-platform
Porn/Purity
...

This was interesting but not exactly surprising.

Link please? LOLz

I sense a Myers-Briggs test result opportunity, although the final item needs refining so both options don't begin with 'p'. I suggest 'v' for 'virginal', and changing the third options to, simply 'game' and 'platform'.

So one might ask if you're a VBGP or a TEPV, or any variant in between.

-4.25, -3.9 here. The other test on that website, Iconochasms, is longer but more interesting: http://www.politicalcompass.org/iconochasms

Some questions:

SL is mostly for socializing
SL is a good place to make money
I have SL acquaintances from many countries
Owning/renting land is necessary to enjoy SL
I go to n SL arts events per month
Fixing bugs is more important than a new avatar mesh
I spend over half my SL time building and/or scripting
I collect freebies

Seems like it's easy to invent questions that sort SL residents, but coming up with 2 axes so that those questions actually classify residents into 4 interesting types is hard!

Maybe Augmentation -- Immersion, and Builders -- Consumers?

Awesome idea The two V's and two P's are confusing though... I propose:

Voice/Text
Explorer/Banner
Game/Platform
Smut/Decency

So I would be a VEGS (INFP in RL BTW)


EDIT: Oh crap, I just realized I still had two P's lolz

TExx

Don't forget

Combat/Social
Linden/Griefer
Blingtard/ARCist
Frankenstein/Proportional
...

Just did the stupid Political Compass test. It appears that I am somewhere to the left of Marx and Hegel, and just a bit more "libertarian" than Mikhail Bakunin ...

Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15

Maybe this makes me an anarcho-feminist?

My problem with the questions was that they were all pretty extreme in their perspective, so I tended, often, to find myself "strongly" agreeing or disagreeing. Or maybe that just means that I am an extremist?

Now it is just way too confusing. We gonna have to boil it down to the 4 most essential!

My God, there's some long words in this thread aren't there?

I'm warning you if you're just about to post, you'll need a thesaurus and a dictionary! You can't just stick your tongue out at this lot and get way with it!

I guess i'm not quite in the middle. Interesting test, but I wonder how accurate it really is.

Let's run with this. Anyone else have questions to add to this?

Axes: I think there is a lot to learn from politicalcompass.org, insofar as the locations of known people on their graph 'makes sense' in a political sort of way.

For this world... why don't we emulate that. Not ideal but there's precedent, certainly. How about SLeft / SLright, and for the vertical axis "SLauthoritarian / SLibertarian" just as they do?

Now this is where I wish I could squeeze THAT statement into the kinda thing I say and do in real. "Anarcho-feminist" is a hyphenated expression I love.
In real, I'm only at the level of "love-glue-gunning" - or is that the same thing??

Imagine a rolls eyes little face coz I 've forgotten how to make one for a post.

I'm not sure that I don't think that immersionist/augmentationist isn't a more telling axis than authoritarian or libertarian.

A few quick questions:

-- Simulations of antisocial or violent activities in SL are JUST simulations, and have no impact in RL.

-- Linden Lab should not rely upon abuse reports, but should take a more active role in policing the grid.

-- My experiences in Second Life profoundly influence my mood and thoughts in RL.

-- People should be up-front about the differences between their RL selves, and their SL identities.

-- Landowners in SL should be the absolute arbiters of what content and behaviours are permitted on their land.

-- If you run across something in SL that you find offensive, you should just TP away.

-- The "log off" button is a more than an adequate defence against obnoxious or offensive behaviours directed against you.

This is what you want: just copy and paste.

Be my guest, but my point is that slicing things up like this is always going to put people who think they're at the opposite extremes in the same box.

What about a 3-D graph, adding the axis of immersionist/augmentationist to the two that Des has proposed?

Point taken!


And my little ferret friend doesn't like boxes I have gathered... Maybe there is a box for that

Augmentationist makes me think of boobies.

We can dress you up, but we just can't take you ANYWHERE, can we?

Consider me chastised

Apart from everything else, it's keeping "left" and "right" as one of the axes when most of the things people associate with "left" and "right" are meaningless in SL. Changing that to "social/business" would help a bit.

If anyone tries to stick me in the boxes marked "holism" and "reductionism" I'll bite them.

There's some wisdom in this (discounting the fact that the whole exercise is probably flawed, anyway).