Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
In a sense, this is peak "degrowth". People having very enjoyable and productive lives while using very few physical resources. https://twitter.com/haig98/status/1753839916948009316
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Gambid
@gambid
Almost a solution to the Fermi Paradox, except it’s the Virtual Reality Trap https://warpcast.com/pmarca/0x9422843d
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Wank Frilczeck
@spinor
My background is in physics, so I want to offer a potential counter argument via statistical/thermodynamic principles. If the proliferation of VR/AR increase entropy at a rate faster than a lack thereof, both civilization and VR/AR will persist. If not, then VR/AR will fade and trend towards thermo equilibrium.
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Gambid
@gambid
I see the point you're trying to make but I don't think it applies here, the law that entropy in the universe increases doesn't mean that every process always chooses the path that raises entropy the fastest
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Wank Frilczeck
@spinor
No, not on a local scale, on a global scale. You see, life itself is evidence that, locally, entropy can decrease. Moreover, it only does this because life is extraordinarily efficient at increasing global entropy, and therefore the system as a whole tends towards higher entropy faster.
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Wank Frilczeck
@spinor
Thus, if AI/VR does not achieve this on a global scale, then it will not persist. That’s the argument. Very much open to challenge, but it has yet to fail (and on a sufficiently large scale, cannot fail).
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