I don’t think that this is particularly likely to happen in the future.
The government paying people to do “pointless virtual activities” would happen either because they make a system for taxing people with real jobs to support those who can’t get one, or there actually being a subset of profitable tasks which are easily gamified, but not easy for narrow AIs during the time that this actually happens.
It may happen that a large swath of people finds themselves unemployed, but that’s a slightly different idea than what’s presented here.
The way that humans currently live, we need to rearrange some matter. Are you talking about this happening after some sort of singularity scenario?
I don’t think that this is particularly likely to happen in the future.
The government paying people to do “pointless virtual activities” would happen either because they make a system for taxing people with real jobs to support those who can’t get one, or there actually being a subset of profitable tasks which are easily gamified, but not easy for narrow AIs during the time that this actually happens.
It may happen that a large swath of people finds themselves unemployed, but that’s a slightly different idea than what’s presented here.
The way that humans currently live, we need to rearrange some matter. Are you talking about this happening after some sort of singularity scenario?