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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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Both are unlikely in practice imo, because they make an N-of-N assumption. If even one culture can keep fertility rates high while others go low, it will end up dominating population-wise. If even one culture can continue to focus on the physical world while others go virtual, it will end up dominating militarily.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Arguably some PRC elites believe that their strategy is already exactly this: https://www.strategictranslation.org/articles/a-study-of-the-industrial-party-and-the-sentimental-party
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quietasamouse
@findingtheoasis
Vitalik, i want to see if this app is still so small that i can say hello!
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Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
On the former, it is striking how fertility rates are crashing globally across very different cultures -- America, Europe, Japan, Korea, China. On the latter, we may be entering an era where technology + money matter more for military supremacy than men + materiel.
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nicovrg
@nicovrg
You can live in virtual world and control robot within the real world. Simulation has unlimited speed but real world experiments have async await
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