Comment by DarkAcreJack (darkacrejack) on The Social Recession: By the Numbers · 2023-04-03T15:50:46.326Z · LW · GW

The idea that placing a helmet over one's head that obscures visual and audio perception of the real world will somehow interrupt the separation of socialization assumes that digital socialization is a replacement for or at least some kind of remedy to not having IRL interactions. To me this seems an exacerbation of the problem, not an alleviation.