inorite, it's legit amazing
like there's 2 mangas about being a receptionist in a magical guild
"you can be anything you want in another world, why not settle for being an office lady like IRL"
I dunno. At least in the US, these people are decidedly outside the mainstream, at least in the US. Their views on religion and sexual mores preclude any popular appeal, and they are handicapped in a similar way were they to try to infiltrate existing power structures.
Basically their only hope is that an AI under their control takes over the world.
It's fascinating to see how the narrative (at least in tech circles) has gone in the last 6 months or so: from "I typed a prompt and got a college-level essay" to "no way this [rich][powerful][respected] VC could write anything so incoherent, he must have used an LLM"
Using Nineteen Eighty-Four references incorrectly is a right-wing trope.
The "Ruthless" joke is one I remember from effing "Swallows and Amazons", the ancient British children's book, where one of the protagonists calls herself Nancy instead of her given name Ruth, because she's a pirate and pirates are ruthless.
So he wrote that in 2007. Since then, games have only gotten more immersive according to his definition, so people dying of too much gaming should be a massive issue. As far as I know, it is not. People can fuck their lives up in other ways, but arguably straight up gambling is worse as it draws off way more real money from people that could have gone to education, housing etc.
Yud likes to argue from first principles (obviously), but doesn't reckon on social dynamics. If games were as bad as he describes, there would be regulation around them. Presumably if AI girlfriends become a threat to future pension payments, they will be regulated also.
Something something Sparta
There's a subtype of goldbugs that want "hard money" to be represented by something more universal than gold, like energy. It's why they convince themselves Bitcoin is worth something. Maybe this joker is one of them.
Like the old saw goes, I traded health and happiness for the ability to detect an alt-right chud after 2 sentences.
Gotta say it took longer than usual for OP to arrive at the real goal: sexbots.
gerikson
joined 2 years ago
spoilers for a number of works follow
Hyperion - mankind lives in uneasy competition with semi-hostile AIs. Wars between human factions have already killed billions. The Earth is destroyed by a science experiment dropping a black hole into the core. The farcaster (teleportation) network causes ecological disasters on multiple planets.
Dune - after catastrophic wars between humans and AIs, computers are forbidden. The only way to travel interstellar distances are via the monopoly of the Guild navigators. Society is explicitely feudal. Our hero protagonist disrupts this, establishing a theocracy in a war that kills billions. His successor holds humanity in societal stasis for millenia, to induce the Scattering that will preserve it from similar societies in the future. Of course, billions die during this period.
Foundation - humanity collapses into a new Dark Age. Presumably, trillions die.
Ringworld - I read it long ago but it was so 70s I've basically blotted it out. The wiki summary indicates it's not so bad unless you're stranded on the Ringworld itself.