When I’m old I’m going to be playing a lot of video games. I have no time to play games now but I’m patiently watching their development from afar. It’s going to be like that Black Mirror episode in a few decades.

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I played through Factorio Space Age over the past couple months, which is the first real game I've played in years. Trying to get into EVE Frontier now, which is a metaverse space game on Ethereum made by the EVE Online people.

Like you say, I feel like this is the future. Most people playing resource allocation games that are training AI or even directly orchestrating "real world" resource allocation problems.

Human minds are highly optimized for playing games, and it's about time for our global economy to cut out old employment rituals and wire us directly to productive tasks. I just want to build cool shit during the day, hang out with friends and family in the evening, and have my food and various necessities appear on my doorstep as they're needed.