Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Generative AI is helping me write code, make drawings and learn. Crypto is helping me make international payments, use more open social networks, and get a new class of supplementary news via polymarket. What is the metaverse doing? (Genuine question, not an attack) https://x.com/edzitron/status/1833914016240222715
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emilee
@emilee
I'm lucky enough to have been a Meta employee during an all-hands in which Zuck discussed his view on the metaverse. It may have changed since then, but TL;DR the claim was "we already live in a metaverse" Adopting this stance, my claim is that a metaverse (the public internet and access to it) has transformed the world, and what modern metaverse companies are doing is wandering through the idea maze to find (1) what the next set of interfaces are to interact with the metaverse (I don't know of a single person who *likes* the fact that hanging out IRL involves distractions from phones) and (2) where the limits are for how the internet can continue to provide opportunity for people that IRL can't. Crypto is currently still 0->1 but Metaverse is 1->2, so imo they can't be compared directly without some extra work to set context first
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
hmmm this feels to me a bit too much like if someone said "actually crypto is already being used everywhere, look at HTTPS and Signal, therefore join my blockchain company"
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emilee
@emilee
hMMmmmM that's a good point. this is certainly where my take breaks down, but i'm inclined to argue this analogy still has some holes, gonna think aloud here
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Nate Maddrey
@nmadd
The universe is a blockchain, we’re all just UTXOs
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