No, there’s plenty of spidermen. Here are some things that’re weird about the present era that simulators would probably find interesting:
Takes place during the formation of the constitution of the future—AGI is about to be built, a brief period unlike any before it and long before most of the people of this universe lived, being artificially boosted for its historical significance.
Weirdly high individual agency high drama societies despite the historical (and still in china) norm of dictatorships.
Weirdly tightly balanced situation with AI politics. FTX was extraordinarily bad luck. Altman turning out to be unfirable was bizarre. The wins of the movement have also been oddly convenient. It’s as if we’re supposed to be balanced on the edge between victory and failure and they’ll fudge it to keep it there. Or… oh: They’re sampling the possible technohistories to try to figure out the measure of outcomes that go well or poorly, so scenarios where it’s a foregone conclusion aren’t worth simulating. So if we’d already won or lost, they’d stop, or simulate with lower detail. Most of the simulation measure ends up in the timelines where it’s very ambiguous and the end can’t be inferred.
This is a different simulator theory but Elon strikes me as a protagonist insert character. Elon has indicated that he kind of believes he might be, both by describing that exact theory (around the time he was with Grimes), and, now that I think about it, his fixation on mars (despite AGI) would make a lot more sense if he was fairly sure this is all just a video game he’s playing. I mean, if it was, it would be a big waste if he didn’t play that part.
Although on reflection I’m not sure how much time Elon actually devotes to thinking about colonizing mars or whether it’s just a surface talking point for him. Maybe even a deflection, to avoid talking about where the profits in space really are.
No, there’s plenty of spidermen. Here are some things that’re weird about the present era that simulators would probably find interesting:
Takes place during the formation of the constitution of the future—AGI is about to be built, a brief period unlike any before it and long before most of the people of this universe lived, being artificially boosted for its historical significance.
Weirdly high individual agency high drama societies despite the historical (and still in china) norm of dictatorships.
Weirdly tightly balanced situation with AI politics. FTX was extraordinarily bad luck. Altman turning out to be unfirable was bizarre. The wins of the movement have also been oddly convenient. It’s as if we’re supposed to be balanced on the edge between victory and failure and they’ll fudge it to keep it there. Or… oh: They’re sampling the possible technohistories to try to figure out the measure of outcomes that go well or poorly, so scenarios where it’s a foregone conclusion aren’t worth simulating. So if we’d already won or lost, they’d stop, or simulate with lower detail. Most of the simulation measure ends up in the timelines where it’s very ambiguous and the end can’t be inferred.
This is a different simulator theory but Elon strikes me as a protagonist insert character. Elon has indicated that he kind of believes he might be, both by describing that exact theory (around the time he was with Grimes), and, now that I think about it, his fixation on mars (despite AGI) would make a lot more sense if he was fairly sure this is all just a video game he’s playing. I mean, if it was, it would be a big waste if he didn’t play that part.
Although on reflection I’m not sure how much time Elon actually devotes to thinking about colonizing mars or whether it’s just a surface talking point for him. Maybe even a deflection, to avoid talking about where the profits in space really are.