Philip Rosedale
@philiprosedale.bsky.social
Founder, Second Life. Also High Fidelity, CIMC.AI. http://rosedales.com
All models are wrong. Some models are useful.
All models are wrong. Some models are useful.
If you had 1,000 people competing in a free market to create new companies and products, would they produce more overall value if you also forced them to sleep only 4 hours a night? Think about that.
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
July 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If you had 1,000 people competing in a free market to create new companies and products, would they produce more overall value if you also forced them to sleep only 4 hours a night? Think about that.
is there anyone in the #secondlife developer community interested in bringing back legacy search in the SL viewer? Issue is here:
github.com/secondlife/v...
github.com/secondlife/v...
🔍 Bring Back Legacy Search · Issue #4411 · secondlife/viewer
The search experience in the official Second Life viewer is entirely web-based and lacks the responsiveness, discoverability, and integration of the legacy in-viewer search system. Many long-term u...
github.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
is there anyone in the #secondlife developer community interested in bringing back legacy search in the SL viewer? Issue is here:
github.com/secondlife/v...
github.com/secondlife/v...
Someone suggested this idea to me - a simpler way get non-overlapping tool windows - and I re-added it to feedback... does anyone know who the original idea came from? feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requ...
Resize 3D view to enable non-overlapping floaters | ✨ Feature Requests | Second Life
Make it possible to drag the size of the 3D view window to be smaller than the whole viewer window, allowing the various floater windows to be placed next to
feedback.secondlife.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Someone suggested this idea to me - a simpler way get non-overlapping tool windows - and I re-added it to feedback... does anyone know who the original idea came from? feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requ...
Who else is pondering this? What will you do with your newly-discovered free time? philiprosedale.substack.com/p/ultraviole...
Ultraviolet Catastrophe
AI is about to make the public internet useless
philiprosedale.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Who else is pondering this? What will you do with your newly-discovered free time? philiprosedale.substack.com/p/ultraviole...
Navigating through the skyboxes...
June 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Navigating through the skyboxes...
Another piece of good #secondlife news: We fixed the long-standing problem with being unable to log back in after a crash, and our latest data shows that it is helping about 6 to 8 thousand people each day. Have you noticed improvement to relogging after a crash?
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Another piece of good #secondlife news: We fixed the long-standing problem with being unable to log back in after a crash, and our latest data shows that it is helping about 6 to 8 thousand people each day. Have you noticed improvement to relogging after a crash?
Latest #secondlife viewer now autocompletes nearby names... like a modern app should! Thanks supapuff for the original feature request.
June 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Latest #secondlife viewer now autocompletes nearby names... like a modern app should! Thanks supapuff for the original feature request.
New Firestorm viewer is out! www.firestormviewer.org/firestorm-7-...
www.firestormviewer.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New Firestorm viewer is out! www.firestormviewer.org/firestorm-7-...
How about this one? Where am I?
May 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
How about this one? Where am I?
Next one... where?
May 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Next one... where?
Like geoguesser, but name the SL region:
May 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Like geoguesser, but name the SL region:
Dress to Impress, but in #secondlife? Anyone seen or working on anything like that?
May 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Dress to Impress, but in #secondlife? Anyone seen or working on anything like that?
Second Life friends: Want to help me with an experiment? Use a stopwatch to time how many seconds go by between pressing the "Log In" button, and seeing your avatar in the world. Give me that number, as well as how many items you have in your inventory.
Mine: 21, 15124
Mine: 21, 15124
April 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Second Life friends: Want to help me with an experiment? Use a stopwatch to time how many seconds go by between pressing the "Log In" button, and seeing your avatar in the world. Give me that number, as well as how many items you have in your inventory.
Mine: 21, 15124
Mine: 21, 15124
Reposted by Philip Rosedale
Join us for a special Second Life Town Hall event discussing AI & the future of our virtual community on Friday, April 18th at 12:30pm PT. Learn more: second.life/news041425
April 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Join us for a special Second Life Town Hall event discussing AI & the future of our virtual community on Friday, April 18th at 12:30pm PT. Learn more: second.life/news041425
Prepping for the AI town hall this friday - can anyone share some marketplace links to content that is using AI? Are we talking about using AI to generate images for the marketplace, or AI used to generate the content itself?
April 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Prepping for the AI town hall this friday - can anyone share some marketplace links to content that is using AI? Are we talking about using AI to generate images for the marketplace, or AI used to generate the content itself?
Couple weeks behind, but wanted to share these pictures from Veronika and Juliana's wedding at Cerulean Township last month. Amazing setting, moving ceremony, and beautiful brides. #secondlife
April 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Couple weeks behind, but wanted to share these pictures from Veronika and Juliana's wedding at Cerulean Township last month. Amazing setting, moving ceremony, and beautiful brides. #secondlife
Reposted by Philip Rosedale
Here is my response to your question.
How Would YOU Start Second Life Today?
YouTube video by Prisqua Newall
youtu.be
March 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Here is my response to your question.
If you were joining #secondlife all over again today, what is the destination that would have best explained SL and gotten you started?
March 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If you were joining #secondlife all over again today, what is the destination that would have best explained SL and gotten you started?
March 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Give me some prompts that would be hard questions new residents of #secondlife would ask in their first few days in-world. I'll reply with an answer from a chatbot we are testing for better/faster help.
March 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Give me some prompts that would be hard questions new residents of #secondlife would ask in their first few days in-world. I'll reply with an answer from a chatbot we are testing for better/faster help.
In these difficult times, we must start building tools to create stronger local communities:
philiprosedale.substack.com/p/beyond-dun...
philiprosedale.substack.com/p/beyond-dun...
Beyond Dunbar
Tech can build trust and enable stronger local communities
philiprosedale.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
In these difficult times, we must start building tools to create stronger local communities:
philiprosedale.substack.com/p/beyond-dun...
philiprosedale.substack.com/p/beyond-dun...
Incredible piece of SL art to visit. I'm a sucker for murmuration....
sleagrants.com/blog/2025/02...
sleagrants.com/blog/2025/02...
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February 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Incredible piece of SL art to visit. I'm a sucker for murmuration....
sleagrants.com/blog/2025/02...
sleagrants.com/blog/2025/02...
Reposted by Philip Rosedale
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
Reposted by Philip Rosedale
Blogged:
Simurg's spring romance in Second Life - wp.me/pxezy-Cja - #SL #ExploringSecondLife #SecondLife
Simurg's spring romance in Second Life - wp.me/pxezy-Cja - #SL #ExploringSecondLife #SecondLife
February 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Blogged:
Simurg's spring romance in Second Life - wp.me/pxezy-Cja - #SL #ExploringSecondLife #SecondLife
Simurg's spring romance in Second Life - wp.me/pxezy-Cja - #SL #ExploringSecondLife #SecondLife