Thanks for the link.

After reading the article I understand the strong reaction to some of its naivete. Many elements the author recommends removing aren't replaceable with a VR system. It's a terrible article.

That said, the underlying idea of using VR/video games in prisons to supplement treatment and increase opportunity for socialization while incarcerated is valid. Plenty of ostensibly healthy, free people opt to socialize this way. I know several psychologists working on these types of systems for non-incarcerated patients (kids with autism, etc). US prisons do not rehabilitate and this might be one way to safely and cheaply provide this type of outreach.

It's not satire? I thought the author was deliberately constructing The Matrix one element at a time.

I think the film "Cube" is superior in this context, is about exactly your point: [SPOILER ALERT]

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Blind bureaucracy creating a city-cized torture device over the course of decades, everyone built a little piece of it, but no one knows what it is.

"My list of biggest fears in life goes something like this: #1: Being trapped in submarine, #2: Floating away into space, #3: Going to prison"

He then proceeds to convert #3 to #1.

!! A masterclass in techno-utopian quasi-messianic nonsense.

What the author of this article should realise is that Silicon Valley can go back to basics because it doesn’t matter at all when they fail.

Real life problems aren’t like that.